6 sentences with “exceptions”

With very few exceptions (again, Cleopatra VII is the most prominent example), men continued to control politics.

Wars were annual: with very few exceptions over the centuries Roman legions marched to conquer new territories every year.

The Scientific Revolution was not, for example, accompanied by major technological advances, with a few exceptions such as telescopes.

With a few violent exceptions, no major incursions were able to cross the Sinai, and consequently contact with Mesopotamian and Near Eastern cultures was limited.

There were exceptions, especially in the Holy Roman Empire, but beliefs clearly hardened in the course of the sixteenth century: what toleration had existed in the first decades of the Reformation era tended to disappear.

The only exceptions were Persian, which would eventually become the modern language of Farsi (the vernacular of the present-day country of Iran), and Spain, where Arabic and Spanish coexisted until the Christian kingdoms reconquered Spain many centuries later.