Example sentences of "to four years [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | AI has received reports that he was sentenced to four years ' imprisonment after an unfair trial by a military tribunal . |
2 | 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 ) . |
3 | Together with a woman , Sonam Choedron , ( who was released in April 1991 ) they were tried on 8 February 1991 and reportedly sentenced to four years ' imprisonment . |
4 | The evidence against Sukarno was flimsy and when he was eventually sentenced to four years ' imprisonment in December 1930 one eminent Dutch professor , J.M.J. Schepper , condemned the verdict as violating the great Dutch legal tradition . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Stepan was sentenced on July 9 to four years ' imprisonment for abusing the powers of a public official and inciting others to commit the same offence . |
7 | Three skinheads were each sentenced in Frankfurt-an-der Oder on Sept. 14 to four years ' imprisonment for beating up three African immigrants , one of whom subsequently died , in Eberswalde in November 1991 . |
8 | On Dec. 14 Sergei Parfyonov , the former deputy commander in Riga of the Soviet Interior Ministry troops , the OMON , was sentenced by a Latvian court to four years ' imprisonment in a corrective labour camp for " exceeding his authority " during events in Riga in January 1991 [ see p. 37945 ] . |
9 | A YOUTH was sentenced to four years ' detention yesterday after he admitted raping a girl at a birthday party . |
10 | The floods destroyed the crop completely and the debt is equivalent to four years ' worth of rice crop . |