1.   All default settings should be used except the database size parameter.

2.   And just last week, Bush said surplus Social Security funds should not be used except in extreme circumstances such as a war or recession.

3.   But until recently it has rarely been used except to guard, say, the entrance to a nuclear plant or sensitive areas at the Central Intelligence Agency.

4.   Everyone uses it except my new manager who insists on calling me by my formal name.

5.   He was a big guy, with a big voice he rarely used except to laugh.

6.   When it comes to the chopping, every bit is used except the bones.

7.   In grade five and grade six, Filipino will be used except in math and science and English.