Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [verb] three [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The new Expert Analysis software , which includes automatic problem identification , is claimed to provide three types of diagnostic information : Symptoms , Diagnoses and Explanations .
2 The trial , the first of its kind , is expected to last three weeks .
3 The European Remote Sensing Satellite , ERS-1 , cost £500 million and is expected to spend three years observing the Earth from space .
4 The case is expected to take three days .
5 Electronic Data Systems Corp has won a 10-year contract from Southland Corp to install as many as 4,000 automated teller machines in 7-11 stores across the US : installation will begin in June and the process is expected to take three years to complete and the General Motors Corp subsidiary will manage processing , administration , fulfillment and enhancement of the kit .
6 In response , the Lord Chancellor established a review of the financial conditions for legal aid in November 1989 , which is expected to take three years to complete its work .
7 Another firm , Tiger Rail , is bidding to run three trains a week to carry china clay from Cornwall to Scotland .
8 The project is designed to perform three tasks .
9 He 's selected to defend three soldiers who refused to fight in a battle they had no chance of winning .
10 Instead , the totality itself is said to contain three instances political , economic and ideological — one of which is dominant ; and the identity of the dominant instance is in turn determined ‘ in the last instance ’ by the character of the economic mode of production .
11 The Police Complaints Authority is going to investigate three complaints against officers involved in the Hillsborough football disaster which killed 95 people last April .
12 But if you practise it sitting down , your voice 'll be very different , the speed of your voice will be different , and if you do n't practise it out loud you wo n't be able to get any idea of whether it 's going to take three minutes or not .
13 The tunnelling of Phase 1 of the project from the gorge site is scheduled to take three years to three and a half years to complete .
14 While Mid-Glamorgan county council 's £2 million investment in the Cardiff-Aberdare Valley line has traffic exceeding expectations , it is having to buy three trains to get the Maesteg line re-opened , bringing its input to £3 million .
15 The NRA is pumping groundwater into the River Itchen in Hampshire to keep up its flow and is trying to save three streams , the Tong , the Little Stour and the Dour from going dry this summer .
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