Example sentences of "to four [noun] ' " in BNC.
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1 | Until recently , volunteers in the CAB were required to commit themselves to four hours ' voluntary service per week . |
2 | A Spanish senator , Enrique Bolín Peres Argemi , was sentenced on Sept. 1 , 1989 , in Gibraltar to four months ' imprisonment for cocaine possession . |
3 | Tied cottagers received protection under the Rent Act 1957 only in so far as they were ‘ tenants ’ who were entitled to four weeks ' notice to quit and could not be evicted without prior warning . |
4 | By an order dated 12 May 1992 the judge found the husband guilty of contempt of court in respect of two offences , and sentenced him to four weeks ' imprisonment for the first offence and to three months ' imprisonment for the second , the sentences to run consecutively and be suspended for 18 months . |
5 | He was sentenced to four weeks ' imprisonment for the first contempt and to three months ' imprisonment for the second contempt , the two sentences to run consecutively . |
6 | The goodwill in such cases is commonly valued at so many weeks betting receipts ( often three to four weeks ' is used ) . |
7 | AI has received reports that he was sentenced to four years ' imprisonment after an unfair trial by a military tribunal . |
8 | 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 ) . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | The floods destroyed the crop completely and the debt is equivalent to four years ' worth of rice crop . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 ] . |
16 | A YOUTH was sentenced to four years ' detention yesterday after he admitted raping a girl at a birthday party . |