Example sentences of "was sentence [prep] [adj] months " in BNC.

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1 P.C. Alexander Thom was sentenced to two months imprisonment by the Stipendiary Magistrate for stealing four oranges worth threepence from a shed at Liverpool Docks where he was patrolling .
2 Col. Amadeo Martínez Inglés was sentenced to two months ' imprisonment on Dec. 12 , 1989 , for advocating , in a book entitled Defenceless Spain , an end to conscription and its replacement by a professional Army .
3 Martin Siegel , a former takeover specialist at Kidder Peabody and Co. , was sentenced to two months in prison and five years ' probation on June 15 .
4 The Baroness 's son Marcus Wilberforce ( top ) , who was sentenced to eighteen months ; above , Askham Grange prison
5 Biggs was awarded the Royal Humane Society 's Bronze Medal the day before he was sentenced to nine months imprisonment on the charges of stealing bicycles , the judge saying that sentence would have been more severe but for his brave deed .
6 A July editorial by William Rees-Mogg ‘ Breaking a butterfly on a wheel ’ was to help free Jagger and Richards , not so Frazer , or John Hopkins , who was sentenced to nine months for marijuana offences on 1 June .
7 Five months ago the castle was the subject of a second mortgage application for which Mrs Willies-Williams was sentenced to nine months in jail , suspended for two years , for attempted fraud .
8 Georgia Griffiths was sentenced to nine months jail in June for selling LSD .
9 Raymond Allison , 17 , of Amberley Green , Pallister Park , Middlesbrough , was sentenced to nine months in a young offenders ' institute when he appeared before Teesside Crown Court yesterday .
10 Spanswick was sentenced to nine months imprisonment suspended for two years with a supervision order attached .
11 Thompson was sentenced to 27 months in a young offenders ' institute , and Livingstone was fined £150 .
12 He was sentenced to 18 months ' youth custody and was banned from driving for six years .
13 He was sentenced to 18 months in prison , suspended for two years .
14 Last October he was sentenced to 18 months ' jail — 12 months suspended — for reckless driving and driving while banned .
15 and a jury , of causing grievous bodily harm , contrary to section 20 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 , and was sentenced to 18 months ' imprisonment , suspended for two years , and was ordered to pay £1,500 compensation .
16 On 3 April he was sentenced to 18 months ' imprisonment suspended for two years and was ordered to pay £1,500 compensation .
17 George Marshal Naykene , editor of the Christian Chronicle , was sentenced to 18 months ' imprisonment with hard labour after being found guilty of criminal libel .
18 He was sentenced to 18 months in a young offenders ' institution disqualified from driving for two years .
19 Dodman was sentenced to 18 months with a further 12 month sentence to run concurrently for the other four offences .
20 Dodman was sentenced to 18 months in prison with a further 12 month sentence , to run concurrently , for the other four charges against him .
21 There 's also been a particularly extreme case ; last year in July when a Northampton man was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for merely kissing and fondling another man in a churchyard in the middle of the night .
22 Chen Wan-chen , founder of the pro-independence Organization for Taiwan Nation-Building , was sentenced to 46 months ' imprisonment on March 16 after being found guilty of " preparing to commit sedition " under the controversial Article 100 of the Criminal Code [ see p. 38765 for Chen 's arrest in February ] .
23 He was sentenced to six months in a young offenders ' institute .
24 He was sentenced to six months at the Narcotics Rehabilitation Center of the Chino State Penitentiary .
25 France of Brentwood , Essex , admitted theft and was sentenced to six months ' jail , suspended for two years .
26 For that offence , he was sentenced to six months ' imprisonment .
27 Former White House National Security Adviser John M. Poindexter was sentenced to six months in prison on June 11 .
28 Former National Security Adviser John Poindexter was convicted on April 7 on five felony counts arising from his part in the Iran-contra affair , and was sentenced to six months in prison [ see pp. 37240-41 ; 37368-69 ; 37525 ] .
29 On May 20 Joseph Bendouga , leader of the opposition Democratic Movement for Renewal and Evolution in Central Africa ( MDREC ) , was sentenced to six months ' imprisonment on charges of sending an " insulting and offensive " open letter to President André Kolingba .
30 Miss Drew , whose nom de plume is Linzi , was sentenced to four months incarceration for her part in promoting the kind of graphic material which Victorians euphemistically described as facetiae .
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