Example sentences of "[adj] years [unc] imprisonment " in BNC.

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1 Another member of the García Meza administration in 1980-81 , Col. Luis Arce Gómez , was on March 22 sentenced to 30 years ' imprisonment by a court in Miami on two drug-trafficking charges ( for conclusion of trial on Jan. 9 , see p. 37958 ) .
2 The two others , Daniel Santovenia Fernández and Pedro de la Caridad Alvárez Pedroso , had their sentences commuted to 30 years ' imprisonment .
3 Col. Guillermo Alfredo Benavides Moreno and Lt. Yusshui René Mendoza were each sentenced to 30 years ' imprisonment in late January for planning and carrying out the murder of six Jesuit priests , their housekeeper and her daughter in November 1989 .
4 On Dec. 8 Gen. Iván Jiménez Sánchez , the Defence Minister , announced that 240 people , both military personnel and civilians , would be tried for taking part in the coup attempt and would face penalties of up to 30 years ' imprisonment .
5 The longest determinate prison sentence ever upheld by English courts was the sentence of forty-five years ' imprisonment in the case of Hindawi ( 1988 ) , a man who sent his pregnant girlfriend on a flight with a bag which contained a bomb timed to destroy the aircraft and its 350 passengers in mid-flight .
6 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 ] .
7 In Indonesia , in October 1990 , post-graduate researcher Bonar Tigor Naipospos was sentenced to eight and a half years ' imprisonment because he ‘ attempted to undermine Indonesian state ideology ’ through participation in a university study group and distributing banned literature .
8 Radio Monte Carlo reported on Aug. 29 that Syria had released Nureddin al-Atasi , President from February 1966 until his overthrow by the 1970 bloodless coup which brought Assad to power , after 22 years ' imprisonment .
9 As a result Praeger was sentenced to 12 years ' imprisonment in June 1971 .
10 The Court ruled by 11 votes to two that the offence had been abolished by presidential decree in 1986 — when Aquino dismantled much of the coercive apparatus of former President Ferdinand Marcos shortly after taking power — but stated that the government could file charges of " simple rebellion " , a lesser offence which carried a lighter penalty of 12 years ' imprisonment .
11 Werner Lotze , 38 , a Red Army Faction extremist , was sentenced on Jan. 31 by the Bavarian state court to 12 years ' imprisonment .
12 The Kirghiz Supreme Court in Bishkek ( formerly Frunze ) on March 19 sentenced Ataman Tashaliyev , a former deputy to the Kirghiz Supreme Soviet , to 12 years ' imprisonment for leading the June 1990 pogrom against Uzbek residents of the town of Uzgen .
13 In the first trial of members of the extreme left Red Army Faction who had been given refuge in the former East Germany [ see p. 37828 ] , Susanne Albrecht was sentenced to 12 years ' imprisonment by a Stuttgart court on June 3 .
14 A Palestinian , Hafez Kassem Dalkamoni , and a Jordanian , Abdel Fatar Ghadanfar , were sentenced on June 3 by a Frankfurt court to 15 and 12 years ' imprisonment for attempted murder and possession of explosives similar to those involved in the Lockerbie air disaster in December 1988 .
15 An assizes court in Paris on June 15 , 1990 , sentenced Rolf Dobbertin , a German-born nuclear physicist who had worked for the French National Council for Scientific Research ( CNRS ) , to 12 years ' imprisonment for espionage for East Germany during the 10 years to January 1979 [ see p. 29786 for his arrest in 1979 and p. 33867 for his release in 1983 ] .
16 Under the existing law , helping someone to die was a criminal offence punishable by up to 12 years ' imprisonment , but this had rarely been invoked in recent years amid great public debate and controversy on the ethics and possible modalities of euthanasia .
17 Klaus Kuron , a former employee of the West German intelligence service ( the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ) was sentenced on Feb. 7 to 12 years ' imprisonment by a court in Düsseldorf on charges of treason and corruption , and fined DM692,000 ( the sum which he had been paid by the East German government ) , for passing secret information obtained through his position in the West German intelligence agency , especially relating to West German secret agents in East Germany , over a period of nine years .
18 They were each sentenced to six years ' imprisonment , but were released on bail pending an appeal which has still to be heard .
19 For instance , in November 1990 two brothers in Abbotabad were each sentenced to six years ' imprisonment and given a heavy fine for having preached about their faith .
20 Ruhamanya , the former Economy and Finance Minister and a director of the Petrorwanda oil company , was on Dec. 14 , 1989 , sentenced to six years ' imprisonment and fined RF100,000 , after being found guilty of embezzling RF30,000,000 , and of forgery .
21 Of the five other FIS officials accused , one was sentenced to six years ' imprisonment and four to four years each .
22 In the first sentencing in the Milan affair , Mario Chiesa , the ( Socialist ) administrator of a Milan old people 's home , received six years ' imprisonment on Nov. 29 for embezzling L 6,000 million , some of which went to party funds .
23 A clear disparity exists between the guideline in England and Wales of 20-plus years ' imprisonment and the practice in Northern Ireland of about 13 years ' imprisonment before murderers of soldiers and policemen are released .
24 In December 1983 he was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment for ‘ opposing the revolution ’ .
25 Accountants , lawyers and other professionals who engage in such business would face enormous fines and up to 10 years ' imprisonment .
26 He was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment which he is currently serving in Guanajay Prison .
27 Clause 2 recommends that the maximum penalty for assisting a prisoner to escape should be increased from five to 10 years ' imprisonment .
28 A 21-year old university student , Lim Su Kyong , was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment on Feb. 5 for making an unauthorized trip to North Korea to promote Korean reunification by attending the 13th World Youth and Student Festival held in Pyongyang in July 1989 [ see p. 36816 ] .
29 The more liberal law replaced one from 1867 which declared abortion a criminal offence punishable by up to 10 years ' imprisonment .
30 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 .
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