Thank You For A Lifetime will be available over the counter only at Woolworths, who have decided to make an exception to their recent decision not to stock singles.

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The investors seem willing to make an exception for assertive managers such as Mr Welch.

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Why would anybody expect Facebook to make an exception during the most important stage of the IPO process?

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Worldly people who would blush at voicing such ignorance and prejudice about other countries seem blithely content to make an exception of France.

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The reforms would make it easier to apply for the National Interest Waiver as an exception to the Labor Certificate.

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And I see no reason to make this an exception.

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Mr McCain's unusual openness helps to explain why journalists, even ones who don't warm to Republicans, often make an exception for him.

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He revealed that though he was opposed to all government regulation he would make an exception for the German beer-purity laws.

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While we make it a policy to keep our opinions about specific methodologies to ourselves, we are making an exception in this case.

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Under Luxembourg's law the owner of more than 33% of a company is obliged to make a full bid for the firm, but the duchy's regulator made an exception for Mr Mordashov.

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