Sometimes it is mentioned in this context that various difficult combinatorial problems ( in fact, any NP-complete problem ) can be converted to Go-like problems on a sufficiently large board ; however, the same is true for other abstract board games, including chess and minesweeper, when suitably generalized to a board of arbitrary size.

Sometimes independent generalized coordinates are called internal coordinates because they are mutually independent, otherwise unconstrained, and together give the position of the system.

Sometimes even the number of syllables is not clear.

Sometimes, Roman numerals are still used for enumeration of lists ( as an alternative to alphabetical enumeration ), for sequential volumes, to differentiate monarchs or family members with the same first names, and ( in lower case ) to number pages in prefatory material in books.

Sometimes a metropolitan may also be the head of an autocephalous, sui iuris, or autonomous church when the number of adherents of that tradition are small.

Sometimes, the efforts go further such as in the lead time to the successful premiere of the film, The Muppets which was preceded by several original film shorts on YouTube over a number of years while the film was in production.

Sometimes an otherwise complicated operation reduces to multiplication by a scalar ( a number ).

Sometimes a relatively large number of affected family members need to be tested in order to establish which one of the two possible genes is responsible within each family.

Sometimes the player can control the number and timing of blocks that drop from above in certain ways.

Sometimes the number represented by n is specified in the name, for example laureth-2 sulfate.

Sometimes, the requirement is not as strict: the sum of all the function values at a particular point is only required to be positive rather than a fixed number for all points in the space

Sometimes, after a number of witnesses have been deposed, the parties will have enough information that they can reasonably predict the outcome of a prospective trial, and may decide to arrive at a compromise settlement, thus avoiding trial and preventing additional costs of litigation.

Sometimes a rheostat is made from resistance wire wound on a heat-resisting cylinder, with the slider made from a number of metal fingers that grip lightly onto a small portion of the turns of resistance wire.

Sometimes the names Alpine Tethys or Western Tethys Ocean are used to describe a number of small oceanic basins that formed southwest of the European plate, to distinguish them from the Neo-Tethys Ocean in the east.

Sometimes Phaethousa is included in this number.

Sometimes this is simply in the form of a program that generates a software package's serial number, usually referred to as a keygen.

Sometimes the number of strokes on the gong was used to indicate the seniority of the official.

Sometimes, the number of schools exceeded the population of the residential areas.

Sometimes Hilbert's statements were not precise enough to specify a particular problem but were suggestive enough so that certain problems of more contemporary origin seem to apply, e. g. most modern number theorists would probably see the 9th problem as referring to the ( conjectural ) Langlands correspondence on representations of the absolute Galois group of a number field.

Sometimes in elementary schools a number may be prefixed by a superscript minus sign or plus sign to explicitly distinguish negative and positive numbers as in

" Sometimes known as " I'm a Road Runner ", the song has been covered by a number of rock bands, including Fleetwood Mac ( on album Penguin ) and Peter Frampton ( on I'm in You ), and also by comedian Bill Cosby on Bill Cosby Sings Hooray For the Salvation Army Band!

Sometimes their name is spelled as Nenet because of the erroneous assumption that the terminal's ' is for the plural number.

Sometimes, it is used specifically for periods of one thousand years that begin at the starting point ( initial reference point ) of the calendar in consideration ( typically the year " 1 "), or in later years that are whole number multiples of a thousand years after it.

Sometimes businesses advertise a number with a mnemonic word having more letters than there are digits in the phone number.

Sometimes it is a telephone number, but most often is a web site containing web forms through which customers can fill out orders or inquiries, or even " unsubscribe " requests.

Sometimes it is necessary to roughly calculate the square inch area of the opening but the calculation can usually be made with sufficient accuracy that it won't affect the final computation.

Sometimes it is not a verbal stereotype -- a `` How are you now ''??

Sometimes sprouted wheat is added to bread and causes the children to remark, `` Lillian, did you put nuts in the bread today ''??

Sometimes a desired acreage is offered only as part of a larger tract.

Sometimes this is accompanied by visible shifts of the ground surface ; ;

Sometimes, however, the decision of the lower proceeding is itself admissible as evidence, thus helping to curb frivolous appeals.

Sometimes a significant amount of alcohol ( up to 27 % vol ) is added, as a carrier for the flavor, to provide " bite ".

Sometimes he is sociable, but at other times he shuts himself up in his room.

Sometimes it is possible to " see " anagrams in words, unaided by tools, though the more letters involved the more difficult this becomes.

Sometimes the whole space is taken up with the inscription.

Sometimes this dish is referred to as " chow mein " ( which literally means " fried noodles " in Cantonese ).

Sometimes it is instead only required that the faces that meet at one vertex are related isometrically to the faces that meet at the other.

Sometimes the Kaliningrad Oblast is called the Янтарный край, which means " the amber area ".

Sometimes the name Sporozoa is taken as a synonym for the Apicomplexa, or occasionally as a subset.

Sometimes an internal standard is added at a known concentration directly to an analytical sample to aid in quantitation.

Sometimes medication is combined with psychotherapy but research has found that there is no benefit of combined pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy versus monotherapy.

Sometimes this non linearity is deliberately designed in to reduce the audible unpleasantness of hard clipping under overload.

Sometimes this is referred to as " hornbook law " meaning treatise or textbook, often relied upon as authoritative, competent, and generally accepted in the field of Canadian law.

Sometimes a misdealt card ( such as one of the down cards in poker that has flashed during the deal ) will be used as the burn card — in those cases, the card should be immediately placed face up on the deck after the deal is complete.

Sometimes, especially in computer science, the term is used for any binary function.

Sometimes this carries jurisdiction over metropolitan bishops, but usually it is purely honorific.

Sometimes in desert warfare, there is no nearby town name to use ; map coordinates gave the name to the Battle of 73 Easting in the First Gulf War.

Sometimes a full tree is ambiguously defined as a perfect tree.