Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.

Several major North American drainage basins and many minor ones share a common border with the Columbia River's drainage basin.

Several patterns of linking the rings together have been known since ancient times, with the most common being the 4-to-1 pattern ( where each ring is linked with four others ).

Several subspecies of the common chimpanzee have been recognized:

Several clinical and experimental data have implicated the failure of blood – brain barrier ( BBB ) function in triggering chronic or acute seizures, some studies implicate the interactions between a common blood protein — albumin and astrocytes.

Several digraphs are common in English.

Several of the most common techniques for producing glass art include: blowing, kiln-casting, fusing, slumping, pate-de-verre, flame-working, hot-sculpting and cold-working.

Several common genotyping techniques include restriction fragment length polymorphism ( RFLP ), terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism ( t-RFLP ), amplified fragment length polymorphism ( AFLP ), and multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification ( MLPA ).

Several traditional players have used hammers that differ substantially from those in common use today.

Several common analogies support slippery slope arguments.

Several libertarian socialists, notably Noam Chomsky, believe that anarchism shares much in common with certain variants of Marxism such as the council communism of Marxist Anton Pannekoek.

Several optional extensions are also available, including MIPS-3D which is a simple set of floating-point SIMD instructions dedicated to common 3D tasks, MDMX ( MaDMaX ) which is a more extensive integer SIMD instruction set using the 64-bit floating-point registers, MIPS16e which adds compression to the instruction stream to make programs take up less room, and MIPS MT, which adds multithreading capability.

Several cyanobacterial strains are also capable of diazotrophic growth, an ability which may have been present in their last common ancestor in the Archaean.

Several bands will share a common territory, with some members of one band joining another band, every so often.

Several common forms of SOD exist: they are proteins cofactored with copper and zinc, or manganese, iron, or nickel.

Several fundamental common law institutions may have been adapted from similar legal institutions in Islamic law and jurisprudence, and introduced to England after the Norman conquest of England by the Normans, who conquered and inherited the Islamic legal administration of the Emirate of Sicily, and also by Crusaders during the Crusades.

Several other less common academic positions also exist.

Several historical varieties of laudanum exist, including Paracelsus ' laudanum, Sydenham's Laudanum ( also known as tinctura opii crocata ), benzoic laudanum ( tinctura opii benzoica ), and deodorized tincture of opium ( the most common contemporary formulation ), among others.

Several elements from Arabian mythology and Persian mythology are now common in modern fantasy, such as genies, bahamuts, magic carpets, magic lamps, etc.

Several types of common " berries " are shown, only one of which ( the blueberry ) is a berry by botanical definition.

Several species are among the most common of seabirds, including the Wilson's Storm Petrel ( an estimated 20 million individuals ) and the Short-tailed Shearwater ( an estimated 30 million individuals ); while the total population of some other species barely reaches more than two hundred individuals.

Several sources from the High Middle Ages suggest that there was a common Carantanian ( that is, Carinthian ) identity that slowly vanished after the 14th century and was replaced by a regional Carniolan identity.

Several specific federal court rulings have set precedents regarding both court decreed name changes and common law name changes ( changing the name at will ).

Several PBS stations also air some CBC programming However, these programs are syndicated by independent distributors and are not governed by the PBS " common carriage " policy.

Several signers affixed their names, it was learned, after being told that no tax increase would be possible without consent of the General Assembly and that a provision could be included in the charter to have the town take over the Johnston Sanitary District sewer system.

Several of the extinct Baltic languages have a limited or nonexistent written record, their existence being known only from the records of ancient historians and personal or place names.

Several other signatories later Hebraised their names, including Meir Argov ( Grabovsky ), Peretz Bernstein ( then Fritz Bernstein ), Avraham Granot ( Granovsky ), Avraham Nissan ( Katznelson ), Moshe Kol ( Kolodny ), Yehuda Leib Maimon ( Fishman ), Golda Meir ( Myerson ), Pinchas Rosen ( Felix Rosenblueth ) and Moshe Sharett ( Shertok ).

Several reports have incorrectly suggested that he took his name in tribute to actor Spencer Tracy, combining Tracy's first and last names.

* Several gay rights organizations, such as Lambda Legal, and the Lambda Literary Award derive their names from the use of a lower-case lambda as a symbol for gay and lesbian rights.

Several characters are never named during the film but do have names that are used in the tracklisting for the soundtrack album and elsewhere.

Several of these names were chosen to correspond to their rough equivalents in international chess, and not as literal translations of the Japanese names.

Several hundred of the brightest stars have traditional names, most of which derive from Arabic, but a few from Latin.

Several place names in Iceland, Greenland and Norway may originate from walrus sites ; Hvalfjord, Hvallatrar and Hvalsnes to name some, all being typical walrus breeding grounds.

Several knots are known interchangeably by these three names.

Several other names for related or similar dishes existed in Europe, such as the 13th century Danish hwit moos (" white mush "), the Anglo-Norman blanc desirree (" white Syrian dish ") and Dutch calijs ( from Latin colare, " to strain ").

Several names for the site are used in the early records, including Chesters on Caudley, Little Chesters, the Bower, and Chesterholm ; the altar found in 1914 confirmed that the true Roman name for the site was " Vindolanda ", which had been in dispute as one early source referred to it as " Vindolana ".

Several different shapes of rod are used, and the resulting fiber is sold under brand names such as " Panda " and " Bow-tie ".

Several towns with names possibly related to ' Alan ', such as Allainville, Yvelines, Alainville-en Beauce, Loiret, Allaines and Allainville, Eure-et-Loir, and Les Allains, Eure, are taken as evidence that a contingent settled in Armorica, Brittany.

Several outdated taxon names — based on morphological features — are still occasionally used for species of the Ascomycota.

Several names have been derived from it:

Several group members assumed names reflective of this influence.

Several species have different names in Europe and North America.

Several design houses are active in this space, prominent names being:

Several old teams returned under new names and new ownership.

Several of the big names did not qualify for the final, but Walker did.

Several more names are discoverable from other sources.