Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] to [adj] year in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hapless producers of the programme were given 50 lashes and sentenced to 4-5 years in prison . |
| 2 | Paul A. Bilzerian , 38 , chairman of Singer Co. and a stock speculator , was on Sept. 27 , 1989 , fined $1,500,000 and sentenced to four years in prison — the longest prison sentence given for a Wall Street criminal . |
| 3 | OWING to an error in a report supplied by a news agency in last night 's Echo , it was wrongly stated that Mr Bryan Williams , of Wye Street , Walton , Liverpool , had been found guilty of conspiracy to rob and sentenced to four years in jail . |
| 4 | The man , who is not being named at the request of his family , was detained with a German man at Umm Qasr on May 28 and sentenced to eight years in jail in Baghdad on June 6 , a spokeswoman said . |
| 5 | In 1984 , when she was 18 , she was arrested , convicted of assault and sentenced to two years in prison . |
| 6 | With the assistance of Archbishop Romero — who was subsequently assassinated — she found her son , who was tried and sentenced to 30 years in prison . |
| 7 | BRAZIL : Darly Alves da Silva , the man convicted and sentenced to 19 years in prison for ordering the murder of Brazilian trade unionist and environmental leader Chico Mendes , had his conviction annulled by the Justice Tribunal in Acra on 28 February . |
| 8 | One of the leaders of the Beijing Spring movement in 1978-79 which had created a " Democracy Wall " in the capital , Wei had been arrested in 1979 and sentenced to 15 years in prison [ see pp. 30495-96 ] . |