Example sentences of "[prep] 20 year ['s] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We regard murders committed in this country by terrorists as deserving a minimum of 20 years ' imprisonment for those people . |
| 2 | Among the possible prisoners of conscience are 37 people sentenced to up to 20 years ' imprisonment for their involvement in a peaceful flag-raising ceremony in the town of Jayapura on 14 December 1988 . |
| 3 | Proksch was sentenced to 20 years ' imprisonment for the murders and for attempted fraud , the ship having been loaded with scrap metal but insured as carrying uranium-processing equipment valued at US$15,000,000 . |
| 4 | José Abrantes Fernández , Interior Minister until June 1989 , who was sentenced in July 1989 to 20 years ' imprisonment for negligence and misuse of government funds in connection with drug trafficking [ see pp. 36731 ; 37069 ] died of a heart attack on Jan. 21 , 1991 . |
| 5 | Arne Treholt , 49 , who had been sentenced in mid-1985 to 20 years ' imprisonment for espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Iraq [ see p. 34113 ] , was pardoned on July 3 on health grounds ; his second wife had died earlier in the year and he was reportedly suffering from depression . |