Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] five [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | The offender , a Moroccan international footballer , was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment for grievous bodily harm . |
2 | On June 27 , 1990 , at the end of a 16-day trial , he was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment for breaking foreign trade laws , for not declaring income liable to taxes DM16,000,000 , and for playing a " decisive role " in the planning and construction of the Rabta complex [ for attempted suicide of managing director of Imhausen-Chemie in February 1989 see p. 36477 ] . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | It was not until well into 1917 that the reckoning came ; Malvy was sentenced to five years ' banishment , Bolo Pasha and Mata Hari shot , and Almeyreda found strangled in his cell . |