Example sentences of "two years ' imprisonment [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The jury , however , convicted him on this count , and he was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment on each count to run concurrently . |
2 | McCann , in which the Court of Appeal reduced the sentence for a relatively minor burglary by an offender who had only one distant previous conviction , from two years ' imprisonment to nine months . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | The High Court on Dec. 14 sentenced opposition campaigner Chakufwa Chihana to two years ' imprisonment with hard labour for sedition . |
5 | Sentence : two years ' imprisonment for robbery , with sentences for the other offences concurrent ( total , two years ) . |
6 | A marketing executive for the Boeing Co. , Richard Lee Fowler , was sentenced on Jan. 13 , 1990 , to two years ' imprisonment for passing over 100 classified Defence Department documents , including a five-year budget projection , to Boeing between 1979 and 1985 . |
7 | 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 ] . |
8 | 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 ] . |
9 | The most blatant example came in 1981 when it was made a criminal contempt punishable with two years ' imprisonment for journalists , after a trial was over , to interview jurors about their deliberations . |
10 | Both men were also sentenced to two years ' imprisonment after admitting they had conspired to corruptly obtain a consideration from Mr Barrett . |
11 | 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 . |