Example sentences of "[vb pp] to two years ' [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz , President of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation ( CCDHRN ) , who was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment in 1989 for ‘ spreading false news with the aim of endangering the prestige or standing of the Cuban state ’ , is still serving his sentence in Agüica Prison : he is due for release in August 1991 . |
2 | After he had been found guilty of homosexual offences and sentenced to two years ' imprisonment with hard labour , the press subjected Oscar Wilde to vicious attack . |
3 | Both men were also sentenced to two years ' imprisonment after admitting they had conspired to corruptly obtain a consideration from Mr Barrett . |
4 | The jury , however , convicted him on this count , and he was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment on each count to run concurrently . |
5 | Laclé , sentenced to two years ' imprisonment , was pardoned by Eyadema in early January 1990 . |
6 | Sánchez had in August 1989 been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for spreading false information " detrimental to international peace " to foreign journalists following the July trial and execution of senior army officers for drug trafficking [ see pp. 36731 ; 37069 ] . |
7 | Amaoui had been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for defamation of the government in an interview published in El País on March 11 in which he had described members of the government as thieves [ see also p. 38888 ] . |
8 | Also on Sept. 4 Milko Balev , deputy communist party leader under Zhivkov , was found guilty of illegal currency transactions and sentenced to two years ' imprisonment . |
9 | Retired Air Force general Richard V. Secord was sentenced to two years ' probation on Jan. 24 for his role as one of the principal participants in the Iran-contra scandal . |
10 | Albert Hakim , the overseer of the Iran-contra financial network , was sentenced to two years ' probation and fined $5,000 on Feb. 1 . |
11 | One young Lhasa lay-woman , a secondary school teacher , was sentenced to two years ' jail for writing a manifesto . |