Several countries have special schemes, administered with no requirement for contributions and no means test, for people in certain categories of need-for example, veterans of armed forces, people with disabilities and very old people.

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

Several titles and naming schemes have been used throughout history.

Several times he found himself opposed to the schemes of the Duke of Buckingham, and he was keenly interested in the colonization of America.

Several ways of categorizing multiple-access schemes and protocols have been used in the literature.

Several episodes center around Cartman's greed and his get-rich-quick schemes, although his numerous attempts to attain wealth generally fail.

Several governments have instituted major youth employment schemes out of fear of social unrest due to the dramatically increased rates of youth unemployment.

Several schemes were invented by cryptographers to defeat this weakness in simple substitution encryptions.

Several padding schemes exist.

Several other entrants also submitted schemes for columns.

Several new private housing schemes have been built in and around Bannockburn since the 1990s, increasing pressure on the already-overcrowded high school.

Several classification schemes have been used to define the structure of this family.

Several secret sharing schemes are said to be information theoretically secure and can be proved to be so, while others give up this unconditional security for improved efficiency while maintaining enough security to be considered as secure as other common cryptographic primitives.

Several compression schemes have been introduced in the ANIM format.

Several scholars have cited Sinan's possible Albanian origin, while according to the British scholar Percy Brown and the Indians Mahajan, the Mughal Emperor Babur was very dissatisfied from the local Indian architecture and planning, thus he invited " certain pupils of the leading Ottoman architect Sinan, the Albanian genius, to carry out his architectural schemes.

Several recent projects led to developing real time mesoscale forecasting system using the MM5 model coupled with a Lagrangian random particle dispersion model and implementation of data assimilation schemes.

Several of the Board's big schemes were just being completed when McGarel-Hogg's Chairmanship began.

Several railway schemes were floated to provide an " All Canadian " route to the Dawson goldfields — A Teslin Railway, Omineca Railway, and the Canadian Yukon Railway promoted by the CPR.

Several important graph optimization problems are APX hard, meaning that, although they have approximation algorithms whose approximation ratio is bounded by a constant, they do not have polynomial time approximation schemes whose approximation ratio tends to 1 unless P = NP.

Several popular utilities were sold that contained custom routines to defeat most copy-protection schemes in commercial software.

Several hydro electric schemes have been proposed for the upper reaches.

Several tree planting schemes to increase biodiversity have yielded poor results, with the exception of Casuarina equisetifolia.

Several Romanization schemes exist, which are often used on the Internet and some printed publication.

Several parts of the hill are managed for wildlife under DEFRA ' Countryside Stewardship ' schemes.

Several were firing into the barn when Billy Tilghman arrived.

Several effects were immediately evident.

Several germanium resistors have been thermally cycled from 300 to 4.2 Af and their resistances have been found to be reproducible within 1/3 millidegree when temperatures were derived from a vapor pressure thermometer whose tubing is jacketed through most of the liquid helium.

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 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 samples of citrated plasma were fractionated in our laboratory by Method 6 of Cohn et al.

Several New England realtors were invited to participate in a small colloquium of property lawyers, political scientists, economists, social psychologists, social ethicists and theologians.

Several of the movements were given a marked impetus by revivalism.

Several were born in the early decades and persisted throughout the century.

( 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 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 photographs and charts of galaxies help the non-scientist keep up with the discussion, and the smooth language indicates the contributors were determined to avoid the jargon that seems to work its way into almost every field.

Several singers of the aurès mountains were inspired by this style as Youcef Boukhantech.

Several existing pieces of music were adapted to the poem.

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 later books were original in Europe, and at least one novel has only ever appeared in Italian, no English version yet published.

Several of Milne's children's poems were set to music by the composer Harold Fraser-Simson.

* Several scenes in the movie, Gaudi Afternoon, were filmed at Casa Milà.

Several editions featuring Newton's first three stanzas and the verse previously included by Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom's Cabin were published by Excell between 1900 and 1910, and his version of " Amazing Grace " became the standard form of the song in American churches.

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 engagements took place outside the town and the Romans were eventually victorious.

Several people who spoke to Selkirk after his rescue ( such as Captain Rogers and the journalist Steele ) were impressed by the tranquillity of mind and vigour of the body that Selkirk had attained while on the island.

Several changes were made in regard to the myth, most notably that Perseus did not marry Andromeda after he rescued her from the sea monster.

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