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 years ago headlines were made by a small radio transmitter capsule which could be swallowed by the patient and which would then radio internal pressure data to external receivers.

Several of the replies to Mr. Toynbee, without conscious resort to the traditional terminology with regard to the permission of evil, succeed in restoring the actual context in which present moral and political decisions must be made, by distinguishing between choosing a great evil and choosing in danger of this evil.

Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

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 of the dialects have been influenced by contact with non-Germanic linguistic groups, such as the dialect of Carinthia, where in the past many speakers were bilingual with Slovene, and the dialect of Vienna, which has been influenced by immigration during the Austro-Hungarian period, particularly from what is today the Czech Republic.

Several other oxidation states are known, which range from + 2 to + 7 and can be identified by their characteristic optical absorption spectra.

Several biographical programs have been made, such as the 2004 BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, in which she is portrayed by Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, and Bonnie Wright.

Several major cities exist either in the Andes or in the foothills, among which are Bogotá, Medellín and Cali, Colombia ; Quito, Ecuador ; Mérida, Venezuela ; La Paz, Bolivia ; Santiago, Chile, and Cusco, Peru.

Several religious brotherhoods which have sprung up in and around Milan at various times since the 14th century have been called Ambrosians.

* 1989 – Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events which began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

Several vapour-vesicles may unite while the rock is still viscous, and thus form a large cavity which may become the home of an agate of exceptional size ; thus a Brazilian geode lined with amethyst and weighing 35 tons was exhibited at the Düsseldorf Exhibition of 1902.

Several original treatises also survive, and include a work On Fate, in which he argues against the Stoic doctrine of necessity ; and one On the Soul.

Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495 – 1498 ; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice ( 1534 ); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824 ; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847.

Several stars in the southern part of Antlia were a portion of " Dong ' ou ", which represented an area in southern China.

Several groups succeeded this performance, among which was that of Daedalus and Icarus, the most celebrated work of his noviciate.

Several scholars have argued that Acts used material from both of Josephus ' works, rather than the other way around, which would indicate that Acts was written around the year 100 or later.

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

Several Evangelical groups reject the practice so as not to be identified with charismatic and Pentecostal groups, which practice it widely.

Several systems attempted to simulate the appearance of GUI displays which were just appearing as DOS add-ons or Apple systems.

Several leagues, seeing the writing on the wall, eventually joined the NA, which grew in size over the next several years.

Several structures make up a cabin: the similar but usually lighter structure which spans a raised cabin is a coach-roof.

* Several Aramaic targums of Esther were produced in the Middle Ages of which two survive-the Targum Rishon (" First Targum ") and Targum Sheni (" Second Targum ") dated c. 500-1000 CE.

Several paleontologists suggest the possibility of two separate brown bear migrations: grizzlies are thought to stem from narrow-skulled bears which migrated from northern Siberia to central Alaska and the rest of the continent, while Kodiak bears descend from broad-skulled bears from Kamchatka, which colonized the Alaskan peninsula.