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 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 manufacturers produce specialised acoustic guitar amplifiers, which are designed to give undistorted and full-range reproduction.

Combinations of the above techniques produce a " hybrid " or " hyphenated " technique .< ref name =" pmid9008869 "> Several examples are in popular use today and new hybrid techniques are under development.

Several phenomena are well documented during witnessed meteorite falls too small to produce hypervelocity craters.

Several inventors devised machines to record sound prior to Thomas Edison's phonograph, Edison being the first to produce a device that could both record and reproduce sound.

Several economic models exist for vegetable farms: farms may grow large quantities of a few vegetables and sell them in bulk to major markets or middlemen, which requires large growing operations ; farms may produce for local customers, which requires a larger distribution effort ; farms may produce a variety of vegetables for sale through on-farm stalls, local farmer's markets, u-pick operations.

Several fretting schemes involve frets that are spaced unevenly to produce " better-sounding " chords in a limited number of keys.

Several studies have shown the availability of online dating to produce a greater closeness and intimacy between individuals because it circumvents barriers that face-to-face interactions might have.

Several of the original Sesame Street writers and producers were hired from the Captain Kangaroo staff to help produce and direct the new program when it went on the air in 1969.

“ Several computer security consulting firms produce estimates of total worldwide losses attributable to virus and worm attacks and to hostile digital acts in general.

Several quarries produce limestone and other minerals.

Several notable historians and economists such as Eric Williams, Walter Rodney and Karl Marx contend that the global capitalist economy was largely founded on the creation and produce of thousands of slave labour camps based in colonial plantations exploiting tens of millions of abducted Africans.

Several workshops soon began to produce Bornholm clocks which became popular as they were cheaper than the more authentic models produced elsewhere.

Several artists initially started producing Goa trance music and went on to produce psytrance instead.

Several growers have attempted to selectively breed habanero plants to produce hotter, heavier, and larger peppers.

Several attempts have been made to produce an artificial meat, using isolated tissues to produce it in vitro ; Jason Matheny's work on this topic, which in the New Harvest project, is one of the most commented.

Several of the communes in the Beaujolais-Villages AOC also qualify to produce their wines under the Mâconnais and Saint-Véran AOCs.

Several conditions are needed to produce foam: there must be mechanical work, surface active components ( surfactants ) that reduce the surface tension, and the formation of foam faster than its breakdown.

Several species belonging to this family are outstanding songsters: the whistlers produce an astonishing volume for their size, and the lyrebirds aside, the Grey Shrike-thrush is often regarded as the finest, most inventive songbird of them all.

Several programs exist to produce MIDI files from the score blocks of SPC files.

Several workshops were set up there to produce handmade furniture, ceramic tiles, and silks imbued with traditional Russian imagery and themes.

Several modern makers prefer to produce pipes pitched at what Northumbrian pipers refer to as F +, a pitch where the nominal G sounds approximately twenty cents sharp of F natural.