The phrase "notorious exceptions" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to famous or well-known exceptions to a particular rule or standard. For example, "There are a few notorious exceptions to the rule that all dogs bark."
But vaccines — especially for diseases in the developing world — are notorious exceptions to this rule.
Notable and notorious exceptions not ratifying the 1970 treaty include Israel, India and Pakistan, each nations with nuclear weapons, and enjoying US-grated de facto immunity from scrutiny.
The absence of mobile genetic elements is a common feature of streamlined bacterial symbiont genomes (Moran et al. 2008; Moya et al. 2008), although notorious exceptions exist such as Wolbachia (Cerveau et al. 2011; Leclercq et al. 2011).
Why don't the British like white beans – with one notorious exception?
One notorious exception was The Ark, which under various guises gave west Londoners somewhere reputable to eat and be seen eating for nearly half a century.
The most notorious exception after the second world war was when Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against Iran in the Iran-Iraq war, and against Kurds and other minorities in Iraq.
The 31 core gene products showed a high similarity (≥ 90% protein similarity), with the notorious exception for the variable M-protein (42%) (Fig. 4) [ 30, 31].
"Nassau County always was a stable environment," he said, with the exception of the notorious 1992 layoffs when the county work force went from 16,000 to 9,000.
One of the achievements of this book, in fact, is that Mr. Montefiore gives individual faces to Stalin's associates, until now relatively anonymous henchmen, little known in the West with the exception of the notorious secret police chief Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria.
They've got so many different police uniforms in this city, I couldn't begin to figure them all out, with the exception of the notorious OMON thugs - a cross between riot and SWAT cops.
The only exception is the notorious feline infectious peritonitis virus (FIPV), which causes a sporadic but fatal generalized disease in Felidae [14].
