6 sentences with 'exceptions'
Example sentences and phrases with the word exceptions and other words derived from it.
• « 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. »
• « 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 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. »
• « 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 Scientific Revolution was not, for example, accompanied by major technological advances, with a few exceptions such as telescopes. »