Example sentences of "to [adj] years ' [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | On Feb. 11 Peter Clowes was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment and Peter Naylor to 18 months for fraud in connection with the collapse in 1988 of the Barlow Clowes investment management group in which up to around 18,000 investors , many of them elderly , faced large potential losses of their savings . |
2 | On May 8 the government announced the introduction of the death penalty for those convicted of murder or the attempted murder of magistrates , jurors , government ministers or security force commanders ; at the same time penalties of up to 10 years ' imprisonment and fines of up to GF10,000,000 ( about US$12,500 ) were introduced for the organizers of public demonstrations ending in violence . |
3 | Mohammed Amadou Cissé , for many years Minister of State in charge of security and former President Mathieu Kérékou 's personal adviser and soothsayer , was on Sept. 7 sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment and fined 3,000,000 francs CFA after having been found guilty of embezzling 3,500 million francs CFA of public funds ( US$1=238.522 francs CFA as at Sept. 7 , 1992 ) ; his nine co-defendants received prison terms ranging from three to eight years . |
4 | For instance , in November 1990 two brothers in Abbotabad were each sentenced to six years ' imprisonment and given a heavy fine for having preached about their faith . |
5 | Ruhamanya , the former Economy and Finance Minister and a director of the Petrorwanda oil company , was on Dec. 14 , 1989 , sentenced to six years ' imprisonment and fined RF100,000 , after being found guilty of embezzling RF30,000,000 , and of forgery . |
6 | Of the five other FIS officials accused , one was sentenced to six years ' imprisonment and four to four years each . |
7 | On Feb. 27 , however , Ahipeaud and three other student leaders were each sentenced to three years ' imprisonment and fined 500,000 francs CFA ( about US$1,800 ) . |
8 | Bossard was sentenced to 21 years ' imprisonment and once again it seems that the Russians were willing to sacrifice an agent , probably because Bossard had given them all the details he could of the American rocket-guidance systems , in order to enhance the credibility of Top Hat so that he could continue peddling disinformation . |
9 | Saunders was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment but in the event he served only ten months having been released on the grounds that he was suffering from a dementia condition akin to Alzheimer 's disease . |
10 | In July 1990 James Smith , Minister of Labour in the previous JLP adminstration , was convicted of fraud involving misappropriation of payments for Jamaicans working on farms in North America , and was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment and hard labour . |
11 | Nicolae Andruta Ceausescu , the younger brother of executed former President Nicolae Ceausescu , was sentenced by a military tribunal of the Supreme Court to 15 years ' imprisonment and demoted . |
12 | Albert Hakim , the overseer of the Iran-contra financial network , was sentenced to two years ' probation and fined $5,000 on Feb. 1 . |
13 | On 17 October , both appellants pleaded guilty to the counts charging handling stolen goods and they were sentenced , Christou to two years ' imprisonment and Wright to three years ' imprisonment on each count concurrent . |
14 | MRS Leona Helmsley , the hotel queen dethroned earlier this year by a New York court that convicted her as a tax cheat , was yesterday sentenced to four years ' imprisonment and fined $7 million ( £4.5 million ) . |
15 | Two Lebanese-born financiers , Jean Magharian and Barkev Magharian , were each sentenced on Sept. 13 by a court in Bellinzona to four years ' imprisonment and a fine of SFr50,000 ( approximately US$39,000 ) for laundering SFr1,200 million ( US$933 million ) for drug operations in Turkey and Lebanon through Swiss banks . |
16 | In November 1989 Ben Ali granted a presidential pardon for humanitarian reasons to two of Bourguiba 's close aides , Mansur Skhiri and Mahmoud Belhassine , who had been sentenced in 1988 to seven years ' imprisonment and 10 years ' forced labour respectively for misappropriation of public funds , bad management and embezzlement ( for their arrest see p. 35801 ) . |
17 | Salvador Jorge Blanco , 62 , President in 1982-1986 , was sentenced to 20 years ' imprisonment and fined US$5,760,000 on Aug. 8 for the misappropriation of public funds through the over-invoicing of arms purchases bought from companies headed by his associates . |
18 | Five people were sentenced to death , six to life imprisonment , 44 to 20 years ' imprisonment and four to 15 years ' imprisonment ; five of the defendants were acquitted . |