Example sentences of "to [adj] years [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Song Yude , a 34-year-old Protestant evangelist , was sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment in 1986 for carrying out unofficial religious activities . |
| 2 | Yidana was further convicted , without right of appeal , in 1983 of harbouring one of the leaders of the failed coup and sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment . |
| 3 | However , the court upheld the conviction against Mario Biaggi , a former member of the House who was sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment on charges arising from the Wedtech affair . |
| 4 | Abdul Fatah , a former leader of the NII movement to make Indonesia an Islamic country , was sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment on June 1 convicted of " activities undermining the state ideology , Pancasila , and the 1945 Constitution " . |
| 5 | After a marathon seven-month trial , Noriega , 54 , the first foreign leader to be convicted in America , faces up to 120 years ' jail . |
| 6 | Another member of the García Meza administration in 1980-81 , Col. Luis Arce Gómez , was on March 22 sentenced to 30 years ' imprisonment by a court in Miami on two drug-trafficking charges ( for conclusion of trial on Jan. 9 , see p. 37958 ) . |
| 7 | The two others , Daniel Santovenia Fernández and Pedro de la Caridad Alvárez Pedroso , had their sentences commuted to 30 years ' imprisonment . |
| 8 | Col. Guillermo Alfredo Benavides Moreno and Lt. Yusshui René Mendoza were each sentenced to 30 years ' imprisonment in late January for planning and carrying out the murder of six Jesuit priests , their housekeeper and her daughter in November 1989 . |
| 9 | On Dec. 8 Gen. Iván Jiménez Sánchez , the Defence Minister , announced that 240 people , both military personnel and civilians , would be tried for taking part in the coup attempt and would face penalties of up to 30 years ' imprisonment . |
| 10 | Bond had in May 1992 been sentenced to 2 years ' imprisonment [ see p. 38917 ] after being convicted on the same charge , but was released in August after the Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the conviction and ordered a retrial [ see p. 39056 ] . |
| 11 | As a result Praeger was sentenced to 12 years ' imprisonment in June 1971 . |
| 12 | Werner Lotze , 38 , a Red Army Faction extremist , was sentenced on Jan. 31 by the Bavarian state court to 12 years ' imprisonment . |
| 13 | The Kirghiz Supreme Court in Bishkek ( formerly Frunze ) on March 19 sentenced Ataman Tashaliyev , a former deputy to the Kirghiz Supreme Soviet , to 12 years ' imprisonment for leading the June 1990 pogrom against Uzbek residents of the town of Uzgen . |
| 14 | In the first trial of members of the extreme left Red Army Faction who had been given refuge in the former East Germany [ see p. 37828 ] , Susanne Albrecht was sentenced to 12 years ' imprisonment by a Stuttgart court on June 3 . |
| 15 | An assizes court in Paris on June 15 , 1990 , sentenced Rolf Dobbertin , a German-born nuclear physicist who had worked for the French National Council for Scientific Research ( CNRS ) , to 12 years ' imprisonment for espionage for East Germany during the 10 years to January 1979 [ see p. 29786 for his arrest in 1979 and p. 33867 for his release in 1983 ] . |
| 16 | Under the existing law , helping someone to die was a criminal offence punishable by up to 12 years ' imprisonment , but this had rarely been invoked in recent years amid great public debate and controversy on the ethics and possible modalities of euthanasia . |
| 17 | Klaus Kuron , a former employee of the West German intelligence service ( the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ) was sentenced on Feb. 7 to 12 years ' imprisonment by a court in Düsseldorf on charges of treason and corruption , and fined DM692,000 ( the sum which he had been paid by the East German government ) , for passing secret information obtained through his position in the West German intelligence agency , especially relating to West German secret agents in East Germany , over a period of nine years . |
| 18 | In December 1983 he was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for ‘ opposing the revolution ’ . |
| 19 | Accountants , lawyers and other professionals who engage in such business would face enormous fines and up to 10 years ' imprisonment . |
| 20 | He was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment which he is currently serving in Guanajay Prison . |
| 21 | Clause 2 recommends that the maximum penalty for assisting a prisoner to escape should be increased from five to 10 years ' imprisonment . |
| 22 | A 21-year old university student , Lim Su Kyong , was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment on Feb. 5 for making an unauthorized trip to North Korea to promote Korean reunification by attending the 13th World Youth and Student Festival held in Pyongyang in July 1989 [ see p. 36816 ] . |
| 23 | The more liberal law replaced one from 1867 which declared abortion a criminal offence punishable by up to 10 years ' imprisonment . |
| 24 | The agents , who were sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for sinking the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior and killing one of its crew in Auckland harbour in 1985 , were released into French custody in return for $7,000,000 in compensation and a guarantee that they would be confined at the French military base on Hao atoll for three years . |
| 25 | Yusef Salaam , 16 , Raymond Santana , 15 , and Antron McCray , 16 , the three youths convicted in August of participating in the rape and assault of a jogger in Central Park , New York City , were given maximum sentences of five to 10 years ' imprisonment on Sept. 11 . |
| 26 | He was arrested in November 1984 and sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment in early 1986 on charges of subversion in connection with the Tanjung Priok riots of 1984 [ see pp. 33287 ; 34233 ] . |
| 27 | Huang Hwa , leader of the " New County Alliance " faction of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party , was sentenced on Dec. 8 to 10 years ' imprisonment after being found guilty of " preparing to commit sedition " . |
| 28 | A leading member of the ETA command , Santiago Arróspide Sarasola " Santi-Potrosó " , was on July 4 , 1990 , sentenced by a French court to 10 years ' imprisonment for belonging to a terrorist organization and for illegal possession of arms . |
| 29 | The AFRC also reduced to 10 years ' imprisonment the life sentences of three others . |
| 30 | Silke Maier-Witt , a former member of the Red Army Faction ( RAF ) arrested in east Germany in 1990 [ see p. 37828 ] , was sentenced by a Stuttgart court to 10 years ' imprisonment on Oct. 8 for her part in the 1977 murder of Hanns-Martin Schleyer [ see pp. 28743 ; 28920 ] and in the 1979 attempted assassination of Gen. Alexander Haig [ see p. 29913 ] . |