Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [num] year ['s] imprisonment " in BNC.

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1 He was arraigned on three different charges and sentenced to three periods of one year 's imprisonment with hard labour to run consecutively .
2 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 .
3 My Lords , this is an appeal brought by the Director of Public Prosecutions with the leave of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1334 from a decision of that court on 22 April 1991 allowing the appeal of the respondent defendant , Edwin Gomez , against his convictions on 20 and 24 April 1990 at Isleworth Crown Court on two counts of theft , for which he received concurrent sentences of two years ' imprisonment , and quashing those convictions .
4 The Head of State commuted the sentences to 15 years ' imprisonment .
5 On July 11 a Nairobi court sentenced four men to seven years ' imprisonment for sedition .
6 The alternative for prosecutors is to accept a plea to a non-sexual offence such as assault occasioning actual bodily harm or unlawful wounding which carry maximum penalties of five years ' imprisonment .
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