Example sentences of "except [prep] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of us in middle years of life have experienced the pain of such loss : few of us have experienced multiple losses , sometimes in quick succession , except in times of war ; none of us have yet had to accept that those losses , of our own generation , signify the beginning of the end for us . |
| 2 | Yet except in times of war or acute external threat , this seems rarely to happen in modern democratic societies . |
| 3 | Private rooms became almost a thing of the past , for closets went out of fashion ; bedrooms , which had formerly existed on all floors , went upstairs , but , although their dressing-rooms were often furnished as boudoirs , these were out-of-bounds from after breakfast , except in times of illness . |
| 4 | Water was comparatively plentiful , except in times of drought , but the pools and streams were infested with the parasites which caused bilharzia , a debilitating disease which infected nearly all the local people , who had no alternative water supply for washing . |
| 5 | Indeed , he had sometimes felt that the use of such a system , except in times of dire emergency , should be prohibited by international law . |
| 6 | They do not usually have hiding places , except at times of stress . |
| 7 | She 's well regarded , except at times in her local supermarket where Phyllis occasionally undergoes something of a personality change . |