Example sentences of "[been] [verb] to [adj] year in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US Army on Dec. 4 revealed that a US soldier serving in Germany had been sentenced to 34 years in prison after being convicted of spying for Iraq and Jordan during the Gulf War . |
| 2 | He has been sentenced to two years in prison and given a five-year driving ban . |
| 3 | They could have been sentenced to five years in prison . |
| 4 | Mrs Helmsley has been sentenced to four years in jail , and could become eligible for parole in 19 months . |
| 5 | Two men who smuggled half a million pounds worth of cannabis into Britain in a rubber dinghy have each been sentenced to four years in jail . |
| 6 | Huang had been sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1990 after being found guilty of raising funds to promote Taiwanese independence [ see p. 37917 ] . |
| 7 | He 's been sentenced to seven years in prison . |