While an exact number has not been determined, thousands of Canadians have purchased and used what they contend to be grey market radio and television services, licensed in the United States but not in Canada.

A number of licensed versions were released in Europe, including the Luxor Video Entertainment System in Scandinavia ( Sweden ), Adman Grandstand in the UK, and the Saba Videoplay, Nordmende Teleplay and ITT Tele-Match Processor, from Germany and also Dumont Videoplay and Barco Challenger from the Barco / Dumont company in Italy and Belgium.

Weapons are individually licensed by local police forces, however there is no limit on the number of licenses an individual may hold.

As more manufacturers licensed CP / M, it became a de facto standard and had to support an increasing number of hardware variations.

A number of companies licensed the 650x line from MOS, including Rockwell International, GTE, Synertek, and Western Design Center ( WDC ).

However, they filed a large number of patents and amassed a wealth of information, which they later licensed to other companies.

Competition in Tanzania's telecommunication sector is expected to get stiffer after the country's regulatory authority licensed four more cellular phone service providers to bring the number to ten.

Members of the Ritual development team have contributed game assets to other titles such as American McGee's Alice, Medal of Honor: Airborne, Tomb Raider: Legend and 25 to Life and are also the creators of " Übertools " for id Tech 3, which has been licensed for a number of other games.

A number of licensed and unlicensed copies of the mine have been produced.

Opera Software's proprietary Presto engine is licensed to a number of other software vendors, and is used in Opera's own web browser.

For example, London's taxi drivers must learn a large number of places and the most direct routes between them ( they have to pass a strict test, The Knowledge, before being licensed to drive the famous black cabs ).

Battle Angel Alita was licensed for international release in a number of languages and regions.

A licensed land surveyor is typically required to sign and seal all plans, the format of which is dictated by their state jurisdiction, which shows their name and registration number.

Subsequently, production of autogyros was licensed to a number of manufacturers, including the Pitcairn Autogiro Company in the U. S. and Focke-Wulf of Germany.

Hasbro, largely seeking the computerization rights to the game Diplomacy, purchased the rights to the Avalon Hill titles and back inventory and the name " Avalon Hill " for $ 6 million, and published a select number of Avalon Hill games while several individual titles were licensed to interested publishers.

Depending on the number of photographs required by the work, photographs may also be licensed from photo libraries.

Australia's telecommunications market was formally opened to full competition in July 1997, with removal of restrictions on the number of licensed operators and anti-competition mechanisms ( replaced by general competition law under the oversight of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ).

The Montpellier school of medicine owed its success to the ruling of the Guilhems, lords of the town, by which any licensed physician might lecture there ; there was no fixed limit to the number of teachers, lectures were multiplied, and there was a great wealth of teaching.

The series from the 1950s to the 1970s also included a number of titles licensed from popular movies and television shows: Lassie, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, many television Westerns, and Walt Disney's Spin and Marty and Annette, ( from the serial featuring Annette Funicello that aired on The Mickey Mouse Club ).

A number of antivirals have been tested for effectiveness in the common cold ; however as of 2009 none have been both found effective and licensed for use.

The number of automobiles licensed in Cluj-Napoca is estimated at 175, 000.

* Nondeterministic: An automaton that, after reading an input symbol, may jump into any of a number of states, as licensed by its transition relation.

This has resulted in several Catholic traditions being celebrated locally, such as Carnaval and " Kermis ", as well as a relatively large number of licensed establishment and festivities.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated that in 1996 local law enforcement agencies made 1, 467, 300 arrests nationwide for driving under the influence of alcohol, 1 out of every 10 arrests for all crimes in the U. S., compared to 1. 9 million such arrests during the peak year in 1983, accounting for 1 out of every 80 licensed drivers in the U. S. This represented a 220 % increase in DUI arrests from 1970 to 1986, while the number of licensed drivers increased by just 42 % in the same period.

Interest has been shown for a number of years by local assessors in the possibility of taxing boats.

If your state has no provisions for the numbering of pleasure boats, you must apply for a number from the U.S. Coast Guard for any kind of boat with mechanical propulsion rated at more than 10 horsepower before it can be used on Federal waterways.

A number of tour boats, ranging from large motorized vessels to small sailing yachts, visit the Antarctic Peninsula during the summer months ( January – March ).

A number of small patrol boats have been acquired or ordered from France.

Patrol boats are also operated by both the Corps des Sapeurs-Pompiers ( firefighting ) and the Compagnie des Carabiniers du Prince ( police ) which currently number 4 ( see below ).

There are a number of both historic paddle steamers and newer boats offering cruises ranging from a half-hour to 5 days.

The conventional submarine force increased from 35 to 100 boats, the number of missile-carrying ships grew from 20 to 200, and the production of larger surface ships, including support ships for oceangoing operations, increased.

The number of boats in a race typically varies between two ( which is sometimes referred to as a dual race ) to six, but any number of boats can start together if the course is wide enough.

A similar type of racing is found in UK coastal rowing, where a number of boats race out to a given point from the coast and then return fighting rough water all the way.

In the UK boats are classed as " Elite ", " Senior ", " Intermediate 1 / 2 / 3 " or " Novice ", depending on the number of wins the athletes have accumulated.

There are also a number of special presentation items including a walking stick, cigar boxes, silver gravy boats from the Kooyong electorate and a silver inkstand presented by Queen Elizabeth II.

A number of large vessels are usually referred to as boats.

Attempts by governor John Skottowe ( 1764 – 1782 ) to regularise the sale of arrack and punch led to some hostility and desertions by a number of troops who stole boats and were probably mostly lost at sea — however, at least one group of seven soldiers and a slave succeeded in escaping to Brazil in 1770.

A number of inexpensive boats attacking en masse could overwhelm a larger ship's ability to fight them off using its large, slow-firing guns.

The American Civil War saw a number of innovations in naval warfare, including the first torpedo boats, which carried spar torpedoes.

During World War II United States naval forces employed fast wooden PT boats in the South Pacific in a number of roles in addition to the originally envisioned one of torpedo attack.

It had a substantial number of small patrol boats and surveillance posts along the coast, and its task was to prevent anyone from leaving the GDR without official exit permission.

It is difficult to estimate how many recreational fishing boats there are, although the number is high.

As Supermarine was primarily a seaplane manufacturer, this included a number of flying boats such as the Supermarine Sea Eagle, the Supermarine Sea King, the Supermarine Walrus and Supermarine Stranraer.

Although the Grand Union company had a number of broad boats built to take advantage of the improvements, they never really caught on and the canal continued to be operated largely by pairs of narrow boats, whose journeys were facilitated by the newly widened locks in which they could breast up.

Groups such as the Kulinago of the Lesser Antilles and the Carib and Arawak people of ( what is now ) Venezuela launched effective counter attacks against Spanish bases in the Caribbean, with native-built boats, which were smaller and better suited to the seas around the islands, achieving success on a number of cases at defeating the Spanish ships.