Example sentences of "[prep] three years [unc] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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1 | In January 1991 Hong Song-dam was sentenced to three years ' imprisonment for producing material benefiting North Korea . |
2 | Of the others arrested on 9 October , some were later released , one is awaiting trail and others have been tried and sentenced to up to three years ' imprisonment for , among other things , ‘ illegal association ’ . |
3 | A specially established criminal tribunal on Aug. 11 sentenced a former Pasok Deputy Finance Minister , Nikos Athanasopoulos , to three years ' imprisonment for criminal fraud and forgery . |
4 | In the last trial of activists linked to the pro-democracy movement which ended in the massacre in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] , the poet and theorist Wu Jiaxing was sentenced on Aug. 25 to three years ' imprisonment for " counter-revolutionary incitement and propaganda " , and then released for time served . |
5 | The nuns were charged with ‘ splittist activity ’ and condemned to three years ' labour for being ‘ extremely arrogant ’ . |