1.   One of the few exceptions is a small factory, mainly employing women, which produces electronic components.

2.   The few exceptions involved such activities as language teaching and protection of rights, health and safety.

3.   The two exceptions prove the rule.

4.   The one exception was her glasses, whose frames were a startling pink -- perhaps an attempt to liven up her image?

5.   One of the few exceptions has been the toothpaste market in Europe and the United States.

6.   There will be the very few exceptions.

7.   Among the few exceptions are the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today.

8.   But to concentrate on scores of rules bores students and confuses them because of the many exceptions, she said.

9.   If the United States persists in demanding the two exceptions, other countries will have no trouble finding comparable loopholes of their own.

10.   Interestingly, though Levine is a well-known ditherer when it comes to decisions, the one exception was his acceptance of the Munich post, which seemed uncharacteristically hasty.