"qualified exception" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a partial or limited exception to a rule or statement. Example: While I generally prefer spicy food, there are a few dishes that I would make a qualified exception for, such as mild curry or lightly seasoned stir-fry.
With one qualified exception, no one in the ensemble successfully slips out of the contours of a cartoon.
A qualified exception was the AT&T breakup in 1984, but that was unusual, a consent decree applied to a government-sanctioned monopoly.
"For most of its existence, Christianity has been the most intolerant of world faiths," MacCulloch says, "doing its best to eliminate all competitors, with Judaism a qualified exception".
(She stepped in for an ailing Carol Haney in "The Pajama Game" half a century ago and soared to fame.) But nobody, with the qualified exception of Martha Plimpton as a floozy with a grudge, emerges from this Roundabout Theater Company production covered in stardust.
And yet, despite all this, Pynchon's novel is also buoyant, more mirthful than any of his previous books, with the qualified exception of his second, "The Crying of Lot 49," which was too short and too narrow in scope to furnish the varieties of humor deployed here.
It is a book that not only slings all manner of arrows at America's political, military and intelligence establishment (going back to the mid-70's, with the qualified exception of President Ronald Reagan and his C.I.A. director, William J. Casey), but a book that also calls for a complete re-evaluation of the nation's foreign policy toward Muslims and the Middle East.
This trial qualified for exception from informed consent requirements for emergency research as outlined in the applicable national laws of Austria.
There are the problems introduced by the fact that all of the mathematically legitimate ergodic results are qualified by exceptions for "sets of measure zero".
If there is one exception qualified to disprove this rule, it is probably Sir John Maddox.
She added that the Wal-Mart case qualified for the exception.
ban on export restrictions, saying that it qualified for an exception to the ban for environmental protection and conservation of natural resources.
