Example sentences of "sentenced [prep] five year ['s] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The offender , a Moroccan international footballer , was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment for grievous bodily harm .
2 On June 27 , 1990 , at the end of a 16-day trial , he was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment for breaking foreign trade laws , for not declaring income liable to taxes DM16,000,000 , and for playing a " decisive role " in the planning and construction of the Rabta complex [ for attempted suicide of managing director of Imhausen-Chemie in February 1989 see p. 36477 ] .
3 In July 1990 James Smith , Minister of Labour in the previous JLP adminstration , was convicted of fraud involving misappropriation of payments for Jamaicans working on farms in North America , and was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment and hard labour .
4 Saunders was sentenced to five years ' imprisonment but in the event he served only ten months having been released on the grounds that he was suffering from a dementia condition akin to Alzheimer 's disease .
5 It was not until well into 1917 that the reckoning came ; Malvy was sentenced to five years ' banishment , Bolo Pasha and Mata Hari shot , and Almeyreda found strangled in his cell .
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