Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [num] years ' imprisonment " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance which the legislature attached to the observance of the regulatory system is demonstrated by section 4 , which makes a contravention of section 3 an offence , punishable on conviction on indictment by a term of two years ' imprisonment or a fine or both . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Miroslav Stepan , former Communist Party secretary in Prague , was sentenced on Oct. 22 to 30 months ' imprisonment following confirmation by an appeal court of his July conviction on charges of abuse of power connected with the suppression of a Prague demonstration on Oct. 28 , 1988 ; a second charge relating to a January 1989 demonstration was referred back to the Prosecutor 's Office [ for his conviction and initial sentence of four years ' imprisonment see p. 37737 ] . |
| 4 | This new law was put into practice two weeks before my son 's death , and carried with it a maximum sentence of five years ' imprisonment . |
| 5 | J. Spencer commented [ 1979 ] Crim LR 24 : " [ w ] hy should running away after telling lies carry a sentence of 5 years ' imprisonment under s.2(1) ( b ) when running away without telling lies — which is more harmful , because [ the accused ] is likely to be harder to trace — only carries a sentence of 2 years under s.3 ? " |
| 6 | Section 23 penalizes the intentional or reckless administration of any poison or noxious thing which results in danger to the victim 's life or grievous bodily harm ( maximum sentence of ten years ' imprisonment ) . |
| 7 | The offender was on licence at the time of the offence from a sentence of 15 years ' imprisonment imposed in 1981 . |
| 8 | The charges , which carried a maximum sentence of 50 years ' imprisonment and a fine of $1,000,000 , alleged that Imelda Marcos had secretly invested in Manhattan real estate and valuables using money stolen from the Philippines . |
| 9 | The charges of gross embezzlement and abuse of power carried a maximum sentence of 20 years ' imprisonment , but Zhivkov , aged 79 , looked unlikely to suffer this fate since Bulgarian law did not permit anyone over 80 to be sent to prison . |
| 10 | The longest determinate prison sentence ever upheld by English courts was the sentence of forty-five years ' imprisonment in the case of Hindawi ( 1988 ) , a man who sent his pregnant girlfriend on a flight with a bag which contained a bomb timed to destroy the aircraft and its 350 passengers in mid-flight . |
| 11 | The judge imposed concurrent periods of three years ' imprisonment on Wright and two years on Christou on each of the charges to which they pleaded guilty . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | After a five-hour trial Bao was sentenced by the People 's Intermediate Court to five years ' imprisonment for " inciting " counter-revolutionary activities and to four years for " divulging state secrets " . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ] . |
| 17 | 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 ] . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In November two former Army officers , Adolfo Padilla and Gustavo Díaz , were sentenced by a civilian court to seven years ' imprisonment each for participation in a failed coup attempt on May 9 , 1989 [ see p. 36653-54 ] . |
| 20 | Werner Lotze , 38 , a Red Army Faction extremist , was sentenced on Jan. 31 by the Bavarian state court to 12 years ' imprisonment . |
| 21 | The High Court on Dec. 14 sentenced opposition campaigner Chakufwa Chihana to two years ' imprisonment with hard labour for sedition . |
| 22 | In the light of the Committee 's hesitancy , it is not surprising that the Sexual Offences Act 1985 , which raised the penalty for indecent assault to ten years ' imprisonment , did not also divide the offence into two degrees . |
| 23 | Sentencing Serjeant to five years ' imprisonment , Lord Lane ( the Lord Chief Justice ) said : ‘ The public sense of outrage must be marked . |
| 24 | In 1983 the Home Secretary imposed restrictions on the release of persons serving life for murders of police- and prison-officers , terrorist killings , murder during robbery , and the sadistic or sexual murder of young children , fixing a minimum of twenty years ' imprisonment for these offenders . |
| 25 | We regard murders committed in this country by terrorists as deserving a minimum of 20 years ' imprisonment for those people . |
| 26 | That Act imposed a penalty of up to two years ’ imprisonment , but this was altered by the Prevention of Corruption Act 1916 , in certain cases to a maximum of seven years ' imprisonment and a minimum of three years ' imprisonment . |
| 27 | Whether the life sentence is regarded as a sufficient denunciation in society depends on the public 's perception of what life imprisonment means : if it is widely believed that it results in an average of nine years ' imprisonment , the effect will be somewhat blunted . |
| 28 | After a 15-week trial , a military court on Dec. 12 , 1989 , sentenced a police colonel to 15 years ' imprisonment for ordering the killing in cold blood of 124 unarmed inmates of Lurigancho prison in Lima in 1986 following an uprising [ see pp. 34607-08 ] . |
| 29 | A US court in Miami , Florida , sentenced former Panamanian leader Manuel Antonio Noriega to 40 years ' imprisonment on July 10 on drugs and racketeering charges . |
| 30 | His co-defendant , Rudolf Ernst , who was resident in New York , was sentenced in his absence to two years ' imprisonment . |