Example sentences of "sentences of up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The offenders , aged between 16 and 19 , received sentences of up to 27 months at Newcastle Crown Court .
2 Emma Nicholson , Conservative MP for Devon West and Torridge , has lobbied that it should be , and for prison sentences of up to 10 years for culprits .
3 The law , one of the most draconian in the country , provided for prison sentences of up to 10 years and fines of up to $100,000 for doctors who performed illegal abortions .
4 Doctors performing illegal abortion were liable to prison sentences of up to 10 years and fines of up to $100,000 .
5 In Fez , where 15 people had been hospitalized after similar clashes in October , a court on Nov. 8 pronounced sentences of up to four years on 30 students ( 16 Islamic fundamentalists and 14 described as Marxist-Leninists ) .
6 ‘ Joy-riders ’ will now face prison sentences of up to 5 years , unlimited fines and unlimited driving bans .
7 On April 20 the Higher Court of Justice overturned the December 1991 rulings of the Higher Military Court of Justice on members of the former Romanian Communist Party politburo ; the original sentences on manslaughter charges were cancelled and the charges , in connection with the suppression of the December 1989 uprising in Timisoara , were changed to complicity in or attempted " aggravated murder " ; sentences of up to 16 years in prison were handed down .
8 Police courts could impose sentences of up to six months , and district courts of up to two years .
9 The five had distributed material arguing for recognition of a Macedonian nation and language , and they faced sentences of up to five years .
10 At present , Akeakamai can understand sentences of up to five words , and can understand commands even when hearing them for the first time .
11 They were given suspended prison sentences of up to two years on the grounds that they had caused no serious damage .
12 Those who did so were released ; the remaining nine were tried and received sentences of up to three years .
13 Also released were the nearly 750 first offenders serving prison sentences of up to three years , and around 250 people serving sentences for criminal negligence .
14 Sentences of up to 19 years were pronounced by the same three-judge court in Milan on 32 other people in connection with the Ambrosiano scandal .
15 In January and May 1992 , 10 other leftists had received sentences of up to 19 months for similar activities .
16 Danny Morrison , 38 , the former publicity director of Sinn Féin , was sentenced in Belfast on May 9 to eight years in prison for his part in the false imprisonment of a police informer , but was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Alexander " Sandy " Lynch , who had been held and interrogated by the IRA 's security department for two days in January 1990 ; seven others were given prison sentences of up to 12 years for false imprisonment in connection with this and other cases .
17 Many political prisoners who had been sentenced to death or life imprisonment after unfair trials following the 1980 coup will continue to serve sentences of up to 20 years .
18 Bullingdon Prison near Bicester in Oxfordshire is designed to be an answer to overcrowded cells and primitive conditions for Category B inmates , those serving sentences of up to 20 years .
19 Bullingdon Prison near Bicester in Oxfordshire is designed to be an answer to overcrowded cells and primitive conditions for Category B inmates , those serving sentences of up to 20 years .
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