Sentence examples for longer except for from inspiring English sources

But that company does not own the mortgages any longer, except for a few that it could not unload to even the most gullible foreign buyer.

It is the longest jail term handed down for insider trading, and would have been longer except for Mr Rajaratnam's advanced diabetes, which the judge took into consideration.

The toy kept two adults entertained for a good 15 minutes, which would have been longer except for looming deadlines — and the fact that the batteries need a recharge at about 20 minutes.

In his influential 1909 book, "Forty Years of American Finance," Alexander Dana Noyes (who would later be financial editor of The New York Times) argued that the depressions of the 1870s and the 1890s might have lasted much longer, except for accidents of history — a "European famine and a bumper crop at home" which stimulated the domestic economy through its agricultural sector.

Patients were included if they had a clinical and pathological diagnosis of RCC, clinical confirmation of the presence of metastasis, no previous treatment of metastatic lesions, and course observation for 3 months or longer, except for early fatal cases.

Today the Willow Palisade is no longer visible, except for occasional low mounds where the embankment once stood.

As Matt Ochsenshirt asked, does commitment no longer count except for the truly gifted one being sized up by a sycophantic sneaker company for the perfect commercial fit?

This rule was based on the Academy picture ratio of 1.33 to 1, which is no longer used except for revival showings.

The patent office required that inventors submit models with their applications until 1880, when it deemed that models were no longer necessary except for perpetual motion contraptions and flying machines.

Besides the Zhuangzi, Guo also wrote on the Laozi and the Lunyu, although these are no longer extant except for a few fragments cited in other sources.

For the case of risk neutral and risk loving individuals, the over-saving no longer exists, except for the case of EPOC for risk neutral individuals in both treatments (LS10 and LS15).