Example sentences of "sentenced [prep] eight years " in BNC.

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1 A woman alleged to have sewn the flag was sentenced to eight years in prison and her husband , who led the ceremony , to 20 years .
2 Song Yude , a 34-year-old Protestant evangelist , was sentenced to eight years ' imprisonment in 1986 for carrying out unofficial religious activities .
3 Of the other three former executives , one was sentenced to eight years in prison and the other two to 18 years .
4 He was sentenced to eight years in youth custody .
5 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 .
6 Fr Moon Gyn Hyon , a Roman Catholic priest who travelled to North Korea to escort Lim home , was sentenced to eight years .
7 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 .
8 Adrian Hopkins , the master of the IRA gun-running ship , the Eksund , was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin on July 29 .
9 Hamid , 53 , and his publisher , Mohammed Madbouli , were both sentenced to eight years in prison .
10 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 " .
11 The man , who is not being named at the request of his family , was detained with a German man at Umm Qasr on May 28 and sentenced to eight years in jail in Baghdad on June 6 , a spokeswoman said .
12 But Michael Quigg was sentenced to eight years in jail after being found guilty of stabbing and attempting to murder Angus McMaster in Paisley on May 16 last year , and carrying a knife .
13 A TEENAGER who plunged a screwdriver into a frail 85-year-old woman as accomplices ransacked her home , has been sentenced to eight years ’ detention .
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