Except for the odd uptown sex maniac or an overeager Greek sailor, the people watch in calm absorption.

Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.

Except for the wine waiter in a restaurant -- always an inscrutable plenipotentiary unto himself, the genii with the keys to unlock the gates of the wine world are one's dealer, and the foreign shipper or negociant who in turn supplies him.

Except for those minutes in her room, he had lost touch with her as a reality.

Except for that one morning.

Except for sophomore center Mike Kelsey and fullback Mike Rice, Meek expects the squad to be physically sound for Rice.

Except for a few months in late 1960 and early 1961, retail farm equipment sales have trailed year-earlier levels since the latter part of 1959.

`` Except for Shabbat, when they are praying all day ''.

Except for AcPO < sub > 4 </ sub >, they are all similar to the corresponding lanthanum compounds and contain actinium in the oxidation state + 3.

Except for one occasion, the Project never played live during its original incarnation.

Except for the flow direction, the Amazon and the Hamza have very different characteristics.

Except for men's and women's meetings, most meetings targeting specific demographics ( including newcomers, gays, and young people ) do not exclude other alcoholics.

Except for the American designs, tank destroyers were all turretless and had fixed or casemate superstructures.

Except for the Chobe, Okavango, Boteti and Limpopo rivers, most of Botswana's rivers cease to flow during the dry and early rainy seasons.

Except for a few primitive types such as sponges ( which have no nervous system ) and jellyfish ( which have a nervous system consisting of a diffuse nerve net ), all living animals are bilaterians, meaning animals with a bilaterally symmetric body shape ( that is, left and right sides that are approximate mirror images of each other ).

Except for this one difference, the first and second Bernoulli numbers agree.

Except for the smaller rivers in the southeast, most of the major rivers and river systems in Cambodia drain into the Tonle Sap or into the Mekong River.

Except for the several relatively good toll roads which connect major cities ( all of them one-lane ) roads are poorly maintained and subject to inclement weather, since only 10 % of the roadways are tarred.

Except for nautiloids ( represented by the modern order Nautilida ) and coleoids ( which had already diverged into modern octopodes, squids, and cuttlefish ) all other species of the molluscan class Cephalopoda became extinct at the K – T boundary.

Except for the House of Braganza ( founded by an illegitimate son of King John I of Portugal, who was himself illegitimate ), all current major Capetian branches are of the Bourbon cadet branch.

Except for one shot of the woman mentioned above sleeping and suddenly waking up, the film is composed entirely of photographs by Jean Chiabaud and stars Davos Hanich as the man, Hélène Chatelain as the woman and filmmaker William Klein as a man from the future.

Except for the partnership, all business forms are designed to provide limited liability to both members of the organization and external investors.

Except for the Antikythera mechanism, an " out of the time " astronomical device, development of computing tools arrived in the beginning of the 17th century: Geometric-military compass by Galileo, Logarithms and Napier Bones by Napier, slide rule by Edmund Gunter.

Except for a man of religion ( wadaad ), and they were few in number, all Somali males were considered potential warriors.

Except for APOP, the optional commands were included in the initial set of capabilities.

Except for the initial serve, players must allow a ball played toward them only one bounce on their side of the table and must return it so that it bounces on the opposite side.

Except for a set of zero measure, for any initial vector, the result will converge to an eigenvector corresponding to the dominant eigenvalue.

Except for their initial programming, the three robots are identical inside.

Except as otherwise provided by law, the Court of Special Appeals has exclusive initial appellate jurisdiction over any reviewable judgment, decree, order, or other action of a circuit court or an orphans ' court, except for appeals in criminal cases in which the death penalty is imposed.

Except in extraordinary circumstances, the rule does not become effective for some time after its initial publication to allow regulated parties to come into compliance.

Except in those cases where the initial conditions lie on the attracting plane generated by and, this influence effectively involves pushing the resulting system towards the general Rössler attractor.

Except in the North American market, Brembo owns the foundries which produce their initial materials and supply the manufacturing plants.

Except for Apollo 11, all of the missions carried an Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package ( ALSEP ), composed of equipment for seven scientific experiments plus a central control station ( they were controlled from the Earth ) with a radioisotope thermoelectric generator ( RTG ).

Except for 11, all palindromic primes have an odd number of digits, because the divisibility test for 11 tells us that every palindromic number with an even number of digits is a multiple of 11.

Except for the terminal stations, which are operated in adhesion mode, the line has a gradient varying from 11 % to 22 % and is equipped with rack rail.

Except the main representative team, Lokomotiv Sofia has a youth academy, which consists of 11 football teams of about 300 children at an age between 8 and 18 years.

Except for two losses in 1951, the Wilkinson-coached Sooners did not lose more than one game per season for 11 years between 1948 and 1958, going 107 – 8 – 2 over that period.

Except for that slight revision, the basic Darwinian theory hasn't changed in the last 50 years.

Except these last, practically all rocks contain felspars or feldspathoid minerals.

Except for a ship lift, the dam project was completed and fully functional as of July 4, 2012, when the last of the main turbines in the underground plant began production.

Except for the last, these projects allow high resolution video modes, better mouselook, and expanded modability.

Except in flood-time, when the exit has to be used, the entrance is near the point where the river disappears at what is called the gap or hole of Belvaux, and the exit is made by boat from the cavern last described, which leads out to the open river.

Except the first year ( 1963 ) and the last year they played ( 1976 ), the statistics of their meetings show a strong domination by Laver ; but they are biased before when Rosewall was the better of the two Australians in 1963.

* Smallville – The sequences are different every season ( Except Season 2 and 3 that use the same sequence ) In Season 10, the last season, the title sequences usually have four regular cast members, except the episodes that Allison Mack appears, her name is added in the sequences of those episodes for honouring her regular starring since 2001.

The network was also in the process of reinventing its image, having already replaced much of their " old guard " television product with more contemporary fare such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, All in the Family, The Bob Newhart Show, and M * A * S * H. Except for Gunsmoke, which had one more season, Ball was the last performer from TV's classic age who still had a weekly series at the beginning of 1974.

** Except the eldest living son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, HRH Prince " X " of " Y ", where Y is the territorial designation of his father's peerage ( if he has any ; if not, Wales ) and Z being the last name of the great grandchild.

Except for the last story in the book, Mirror Image, none of the stories are related to his Robot and Foundation series, and only a few ( The Last Question, The Dead Past, and Anniversary ) mention the Multivac computer.

Except for Rath, his blood brother, he is the last of the royal line.

Except for the southeasternmost portions, the West experiences two major seasons in lieu of the traditional four: the year begins in a long, dry period of little rain, which runs until May, then the rains begin in May or June and last until October or November.

Except for the last of the Secrets of the Witch World books most of these were written in collaboration with Miss Norton's fans.

Except for its last north of U. S. Route 20 ( US 20 ), I-380 runs concurrent with Iowa Highway 27, which represents Iowa's portion of the Avenue of the Saints Highway connecting St. Louis, Missouri, with St. Paul, Minnesota.

Except for the last issue of Stirring Science Stories, the last true bedsheet size sf ( and fantasy ) magazine was Fantastic Adventures, in 1939, but it quickly changed to the pulp size, and it was later absorbed by its digest-sized stablemate Fantastic in 1953.

* ( Except for the last few episodes, he was not seen.

Except the first and the last questions, all other questions are actually a group of smaller sub-questions.

Except for his last years, he was successful in preventing this.

Except for Ludden's tenure as host, this was the last round of the game in which artwork was presented before the panel and contestants.

Except for a taped show on Thanksgiving, he continued with his regular morning program until the 27th, and did a final marathon show on November 29th, KRLA's last day on the air.

Except for the last few blocks on the Santa Clara end, the road is signed as a part of State Route 82.