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Discover LudwigThe phrase "save for some exceptions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that a statement applies generally, with a few specific cases that do not follow the rule.
Example: "The policy applies to all employees, save for some exceptions related to part-time workers."
Alternatives: "except for a few cases" or "with a few exceptions."
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Tolkien's spelling in Latin letters of Quenya was largely phonemic, with each letter corresponding to a specific phoneme in the language, save for some exceptions.
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Hiring workers abroad is banned, save for specific exceptions defined in by-laws.
So it was not surprising to see Mexico thrive as well at the Olympics, which is essentially an under-23 tournament (save for three exceptions per team).
There are over 20 self-regulatory systems across Europe which by and large are based on the British system, save for two exceptions – France, with its "pathetic, torpid and over-subsidised" press, and Italy.
As viewers, we have to accept that virtually all TV content – save for exceptions such as the BBC – is paid for by advertising.
But save for a few exceptions over the past decades, the province does not have any breeding populations of rats.
In a government shutdown, the federal government is not allowed to make any new spending commitments (save for all the exceptions noted above).
Inmates were forced to work on chain gangs – which, save for a few exceptions, had been abandoned by the US in 1955.
The sale order that the New York bankruptcy judge Robert Gerber approved in 2009 provided that all of old G.M.'s creditors were prohibited from going after the new G.M. for claims, save for certain express exceptions.
Undocumented migrants – otherwise known as illegal immigrants – of whom there are estimated to be hundreds of thousands living in the UK, are not entitled to free NHS care save for a few exceptions.
That requirement of procedural due process should be sedulously enforced (save for the recognized exceptions of dying declarations and the like, id., 407, 85 S.Ct., at 10691070) lest the theory that the end justifies the means gains further footholds here.
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