Example sentences of "[was/were] sentence [prep] [adj] months [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | P.C. Alexander Thom was sentenced to two months imprisonment by the Stipendiary Magistrate for stealing four oranges worth threepence from a shed at Liverpool Docks where he was patrolling . |
| 2 | Biggs was awarded the Royal Humane Society 's Bronze Medal the day before he was sentenced to nine months imprisonment on the charges of stealing bicycles , the judge saying that sentence would have been more severe but for his brave deed . |
| 3 | Spanswick was sentenced to nine months imprisonment suspended for two years with a supervision order attached . |
| 4 | Georgia Griffiths was sentenced to nine months jail in June for selling LSD . |
| 5 | There 's also been a particularly extreme case ; last year in July when a Northampton man was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for merely kissing and fondling another man in a churchyard in the middle of the night . |
| 6 | Miss Drew , whose nom de plume is Linzi , was sentenced to four months incarceration for her part in promoting the kind of graphic material which Victorians euphemistically described as facetiae . |
| 7 | Colling , who admitted causing criminal damage , common assault , unlawful wounding , and three charges of obtaining property by deception , was sentenced to eight months imprisonment , to run consecutively with an 18 month sentence he received at Durham Crown Court in February after being convicted of other deception charges . |
| 8 | McEvoy was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment . |
| 9 | He was sentenced to 12 months detention . |
| 10 | But he admitted allowing under age sex and the smoking of cannabis in his home and was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment on each charge to run concurrently . |
| 11 | STUDENT Robin Hilton was sentenced to three months youth detention yesterday for acting as ‘ a drug runner ’ . |