Example sentences of "be sentence [prep] [num] years ' " in BNC.

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1 Sánchez had in August 1989 been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for spreading false information " detrimental to international peace " to foreign journalists following the July trial and execution of senior army officers for drug trafficking [ see pp. 36731 ; 37069 ] .
2 Amaoui had been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for defamation of the government in an interview published in El País on March 11 in which he had described members of the government as thieves [ see also p. 38888 ] .
3 In February 1992 she was reported to have been sentenced to 5 years ' imprisonment .
4 His brother , Gene Gotti , had been sentenced to 50 years ' imprisonment on July 7 , 1989 , after being found guilty of running a multimillion-dollar drugs ring .
5 Bond had in May 1992 been sentenced to 2 years ' imprisonment [ see p. 38917 ] after being convicted on the same charge , but was released in August after the Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the conviction and ordered a retrial [ see p. 39056 ] .
6 The four had each been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment on 10 July 1991 for holding a ‘ seditious ’ meeting in a Nairobi bar .
7 Throughout his evidence , Price implicated the applicant ( whom he identified from a photograph ) in those dealings as the man who had informed him of the consignment of cannabis in Sweden , and had asked him and a man named Ryan ( who had also been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment ) to deliver it to customers in Sweden .
8 The appellant was Michael Thomas Bromell who had been convicted on 16 October 1987 at Warwick Crown Court of unlawful wounding and had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment .
9 Earlier in August another UK national had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment on similar charges , in that case of entering from Kuwait [ see p. 39069 ] .
10 He had been sentenced to 25 years ' imprisonment in March 1961 .
11 The prisoner who died in May [ ibid. ] was José Manuel Sevillano Martín , who had been sentenced to 24 years ' imprisonment in 1986 on a number of charges including robbery with menaces , membership of an illegal armed group and illegal possession of arms .
12 The judge pronounced that , as he was so attracted by the number four , he would be sentenced to sixteen years ' imprisonment , four years for each of his four ‘ marriages ’ .
13 The agents , who were sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for sinking the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior and killing one of its crew in Auckland harbour in 1985 , were released into French custody in return for $7,000,000 in compensation and a guarantee that they would be confined at the French military base on Hao atoll for three years .
14 A Christian Science couple in Boston were sentenced to 10 years ' probation on July 6 after they had been found guilty of the manslaughter of their two-year-old son in 1986 .
15 Garcia resigned his seat in January 1990 , shortly before the two were sentenced to three years ' imprisonment .
16 Twenty-six officers were sentenced to death , three peers , including Derwentwater , were executed ; of the rank and file 700 were sentenced to seven years ' transportation to the West Indies .
17 In the western Amazonian town of Xapuri , Acre province , a cattle rancher , Darly Alves da Silva , 56 , and his son Darci Alves Pereire , 23 , were sentenced to 19 years ' imprisonment on Dec. 15 for the premeditated murder of Francisco " Chico " Mendes Filho , the internationally acclaimed environmentalist and leader of the seringueiros rubber-tappers ' union , who was murdered on Dec. 22 , 1988 [ see p. 36459 ] .
18 Rancher Darli Alves da Silva and his son Darci Alves Perreira were sentenced to 19 years ' imprisonment in 1990 for the killing of Mendes in 1988 .
19 Three weeks later they were sentenced to ten years ' imprisonment .
20 On Nov. 10 Laith Shbeilat and Yaqoub Qarrash , both members of the House of Representatives , were sentenced to 20 years ' imprisonment with hard labour after being found guilty by the State Security Court of membership of the banned Shabab al-Nafeer al-Islami ( Islamic Vanguard Youth ) and of possessing illegal weapons [ see pp. 39118 ; 39166 ] .
21 Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz , President of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation ( CCDHRN ) , who was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment in 1989 for ‘ spreading false news with the aim of endangering the prestige or standing of the Cuban state ’ , is still serving his sentence in Agüica Prison : he is due for release in August 1991 .
22 One young Lhasa lay-woman , a secondary school teacher , was sentenced to two years ' jail for writing a manifesto .
23 DMITRY SOKOLOV : aged 21 , he was sentenced to two years ' compulsive labour by a court in Russia on 5 May 1991 for ‘ evasion of regular call-up to active military service ’ under Article 80 of the Criminal Code .
24 The jury , however , convicted him on this count , and he was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment on each count to run concurrently .
25 In 1886 he met Oscar Wilde [ q.v. ] ; their friendship developed slowly , but in 1895 , when Wilde was sentenced to two years ' hard labour for homosexual crimes , Ross was his most constant and loyal friend .
26 Retired Air Force general Richard V. Secord was sentenced to two years ' probation on Jan. 24 for his role as one of the principal participants in the Iran-contra scandal .
27 Albert Hakim , the overseer of the Iran-contra financial network , was sentenced to two years ' probation and fined $5,000 on Feb. 1 .
28 A. Askarov , the former first secretary of the Communist Party of Chimkent oblast was sentenced to 11 years ' imprisonment on May 28 for receiving 19 bribes totalling 112,000 roubles .
29 Shadreck Ndlovu , a former member of the Zimbabwean paramilitary forces , was sentenced to 42 years ' imprisonment on June 1 , 1990 , after confessing to spying for South Africa on the Zimbabwean Army and the ANC between September 1989 and May 1990 .
30 In December 1983 he was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for ‘ opposing the revolution ’ .
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