Several financial institutions, both banks and insurance companies, have been sounded out.

Several days after the companies had received the questionnaire, members of the research team contacted the presidents of eleven of these companies in person or by phone to discuss any ambiguities or difficulties the addressees might have experienced in completing the questionnaire.

Several companies also saw possibilities in using the technique for extruding or molding vinyl products with a slight cellular core that would reduce costs yet would not affect physical properties of the end product to any great extent.

Several companies ( e. g., Intralytix, Novolytics, and Gangagen ), universities, and foundations across the world now focus on phage therapies.

Several of Canada's largest companies are based in natural resource industries, such as EnCana, Cameco, Goldcorp, and Barrick Gold.

Several companies received expedited no-bid contracts for Hurricane Katrina and Iraq war reconstruction purportedly due to having cronies in the Bush administration.

Several companies, including Fairchild Semiconductor, RCA and Texas Instruments, picked up on the invention and began development programs.

On March 16, 2005, KMOS, Inc. announced that it had completed all registrations with the State of Delaware to change its corporate name to Amiga, Inc. Several companies produce Amiga hardware and software today.

Several companies appeared including FOXTEL, Galaxy TV, OPTUS TV, Selectv and Austar offering services to homes across the major states of Australia.

* Several models of participation are possible: firstly, a model in which the employees form part of the supervisory board or of the administrative board, as the case may be ; secondly, a model in which the employees are represented by a separate body ; and finally, other models to be agreed between the management or administrative boards of the founder companies and the employees or their representatives in those companies, the level of information and consultation being the same as in the case of the second model.

Several of the powerful German companies backed Christian II, but he eventually lost.

Several other U. S. oil companies also are engaged in offshore exploration, but so far with little success.

Several U. S. companies are active in this sector.

Several companies offer swaging presses ( both manual and hydraulic ) that will manufacture on a small scale jacketed bullets that can rival or surpass the quality of commercial jacketed bullets.

Several companies produce joysticks for industrial applications using hall effect technology.

Several companies were building and selling Lisp Machines in the 1980s: Symbolics ( 3600, 3640, XL1200, MacIvory and other models ), Lisp Machines Incorporated ( LMI Lambda ), Texas Instruments ( Explorer and MicroExplorer ) and Xerox ( InterLisp-D workstations ).

Several companies have been working on and creating potential candidates for the U. S. Army's next primary weapon.

Several other companies were second-source manufacturers of the HMOS 68000.

Several companies did succeed in making 68000-based Unix workstations with virtual memory that worked by using two 68000 chips running in parallel on different phased clocks.

Several oil and gas exploration companies are active in the Seychelles offshore.

Several large glass companies have their origins here.

Several large, Fortune 500 automotive related companies had their headquarters in Toledo.

Several Japanese companies produced turbocharged high performance motorcycles in the early 1980s.

Several other companies won the latest bid for the contract.

Several proposals have been made for changes to the classification, and a bid for a revision was unsuccessfully attempted in 1960.

Several sources familiar with JPMorgan Chase's talks with state and Port Authority officials said the firm's bid to develop the proposed 57-story tower for major corporate tenants is being taken seriously by the bistate agency.

Several producers bid for the album on a 2-year cycle.

Several times in my youth I voted the Socialist ticket, but less because I was Socialist than because I was not either a Republican or a Democrat, and I voted for Franklin Roosevelt every time he was a candidate.

( Several times recently I have wondered whether shows were being staged for the sake of the script or just to entertain the audience with the spectacle of scenery being shifted right in front of their eyes.

Several hundred frog species in adaptive radiations ( e. g., Eleutherodactylus, the Pacific Platymantines, the Australo-Papuan microhylids, and many other tropical frogs ), however, do not need any water for breeding in the wild.

Several robot cities have been planned for the country: the first will be built in 2009 at a cost of 500 billion won, of which 50 billion is direct government investment.

Several organizations, such as the American Association of Variable Star Observers and Center for Backyard Astrophysics, exist to help coordinate these contributions.

Several unusual applications, such as a nuclear battery or fuel for space ships with nuclear propulsion, have been proposed for the isotope < sup > 242m </ sup > Am, but they are as yet hindered by the scarcity and high price of this nuclear isomer.

Several possible causes exist for these patterns of neurological dysfunction.

Several additional candidates for written ASL have appeared in over the years, including Sutton SignWriting, Sign Script, ASL-phabet, and Si5s.

Several species are raised for amaranth " grain " in Asia and the Americas.

Several public interest groups, including the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin ( COICA ) and the Coalition for Amazonian Peoples and Their Environment ( Amazon Coalition ) objected.

Several crystal structures are known for AC-II enzymes.

Several studies have shown an increased rate of cancer mortality for workers exposed to 2, 4, 5-T.

Several concepts that provide alternative definitions for the reaction mechanisms involved and their application in solving related problems exist.

Several components that eventually played a key role in the development of the automobile were invented for the bicycle, including ball bearings, pneumatic tires, chain-driven sprockets, and tension-spoked wheels.

Several species of fungi can be used for bioleaching.

Several substyles exist, including maibock or helles bock, a paler, more hopped version generally made for consumption at spring festivals ; doppelbock, a stronger and maltier version ; and eisbock, a much stronger version made by partially freezing the beer and removing the water ice that forms.

* Several computer operating systems have various methods of running software originally designed for older versions or other OSs:

Several proteins coded for in the tra or trb locus seem to open a channel between the bacteria and it is thought that the traD enzyme, located at the base of the pilus, initiates membrane fusion.

Several rating scales for the screening and evaluation of bipolar disorder exist, such as the Bipolar spectrum diagnostic scale.

Several bishops were appointed for Sweden in 1060s, one also for Birka.

Several concepts are essential for the study of chemistry ; some of them are: