seven-year sentence
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sentence
noun[C]
uk/ˈsen.təns/us/ˈsen.təns/
a group of words, usually containing a verb, that expresses a thought in the form of a statement, question, instruction, or exclamation and starts with a capital letter ...
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(Definition ofsentencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The amendments also deal with drugs offences and the mandatoryseven-yearsentence.
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There is to be a mandatoryseven-yearsentencefor a third conviction.
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Is it to be said that a teenager who does that three times is to receive aseven-yearsentence?
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I am interested in the introduction of theseven-yearsentence, but it is the drug traffickers who worry me.
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Aseven-yearsentencewould be a proper maximum.
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What is the magic about aseven-yearsentenceas opposed to a nine or 10-year sentence?
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It cannot be right for a person to be subject in the first instance to aseven-yearsentence, and then find it reduced to six months.
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I query theseven-yearsentencefor someone who has committed the offence of drug trafficking for a third time, as it seems a remarkably lax sentence.
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One of my constituents who is in prison serving aseven-yearsentence, who always claimed that he was "framed" by the police, happened to read this article.
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At the time, a number of articles in the press speculated on the odds of his surviving the full term of hisseven-yearsentence.
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She served four years of aseven-yearsentencefor explosives offences.
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Hawash was released from prison in 2009, after serving most of hisseven-yearsentence.
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He received aseven-yearsentencefor manslaughter.
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Clause 2 proposes seven-year sentences for the evil people who peddle drugs.
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Four men, including two museum guards, were convicted for the theft to six or seven-year sentences.
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Some of those who were under seven-year sentences had therefore completed them.
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