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What is the meaning of this sentence,

"Not all sentence-equivalence questions are so vocabulary dependent but you can expect quite a few to require knowledge of very advanced words."

I could guess the meaning of the sentence, but I have no idea why the writer uses “but” while the former sentence is not in contrast to the latter, and “a few to require” is used.

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Consider,

"Not all men wear trousers, but you can expect quite a few to do so."

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"Not all computer science graduates can code effectively, but you can expect quite a few to be able to do so."

This is the same contrast. "Not all X are/do Y, but quite a few are/do." It means that it is not essential for things of class X to fulfil criterion Y, but it is expected that a good proportion will fulfil it anyway.

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