Example sentences of "sentence [prep] [adj] months [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Georgia Griffiths was sentenced to nine months jail in June for selling LSD .
3 A 26-YEAR-OLD Dungannon painter was banned from driving for 25 years and sentenced to six months imprisonment for a drink driving offence when he appeared at Newry Magistrate 's Court yesterday .
4 Signaller Stuart Wilson , 20 , was dismissed from the army and sentenced to six months detention by a Catterick Garrison district court martial after he admitted possessing drugs .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
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