Several companies are competing for the contract.

为得到那项合同，几家公司正在竞争。

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Several companies bid for the contract.

几个公司为竞争合同而投标。

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Several months after that, we signed a contract.

几个月后，我们签订了合同。

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The company, which launched in November 2012, currently has one full-time employee and several contract workers.

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Mozeliak said several different contract structures were discussed in the final days of Pujols's free agency, but those proposals were never substantially better than that spring-training offer.

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The agency awarded a contract several weeks ago to five manufacturers to develop an H1N1 antigen.

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