The word(s) "except" appears 184 time(s) in 178 verse(s) in Quran in Muhammad Habib Shakir translation.

(151) And certainly We sent apostles before you: there are some of them that We have mentioned to you and there are others whom We have not mentioned to you, and it was not meet for an apostle that he should bring a sign except with Allah's permission, but when the command of Allah came, judgment was given with truth, and those who treated (it) as a lie were lost.

(152) And it is not for any mortal that Allah should speak to him except by revelation or from behind a veil, or by sending a messenger and revealing by His permission what He pleases; surely He is High, Wise.

(153) The friends shall on that day be enemies one to another, except those who guard (against evil).

(154) They shall not taste therein death except the first death, and He will save them from the punishment of the hell,

(155) Destroying everything by the command of its Lord, so they became such that naught could be seen except their dwellings. Thus do We reward the guilty people.

(156) And I have not created the jinn and the men except that they should serve Me.

(157) And how many an angel is there in the heavens whose intercession does not avail at all except after Allah has given permission to whom He pleases and chooses.

(158) Surely We sent upon them a stonestorm, except Lut's followers; We saved them a little before daybreak,

(159) except the word peace, peace.

(160) Secret counsels are only (the work) of the Shaitan that he may cause to grieve those who believe, and he cannot hurt them in the least except with Allah's permission, and on Allah let the believers rely.