The phrase 'lengthy imprisonment' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when referring to a sentence or punishment that lasts for a long time. For example, "The criminal was sentenced to lengthy imprisonment for his crime."
I am astounded that he has been kept in Gaol for over 40 years without parole and with no sympathy or understanding displayed for the circumstances under which he came to be imprisoned, his personal circumstances, the transformative effects of (lengthy) imprisonment, or the circumstances of his people.
A lengthy imprisonment would "seriously threaten his well-being" and would effectively be "a death sentence".
What justified the lengthy imprisonment, he said, was her victimizing the patients yet again by putting back dirty needles.
Partly, I keep returning to the subject because his lengthy imprisonment offends my sense of justice; his real crime, after all, was challenging Vladimir Putin, the Russian strongman.
Adam Coogle, a Middle East researcher at Human Rights Watch, said: "Instead of beheading Ashraf Fayadh, a Saudi court has ordered a lengthy imprisonment and flogging.
Succulent Dorset lambs, according to the historian Keith Thomas, arrived at the Christmas tables of the Georgian gentry only after a lengthy imprisonment in "dark little cabins".
The troikas were three-man tribunals with powers to sentence those accused of crimes to lengthy imprisonments, or more often death by shooting.
Ammar and his family have become acquainted with the human costs of that order: potentially lengthy imprisonments and uncertainty.
But federal prosecutors asked in their own letter for "a lengthy term of imprisonment".
And this case shows lengthy terms of imprisonment, not profits, are the real result".
Recently, some Christmas Island detainees rioted and set fire to buildings, in frustration at the lengthy de facto imprisonment they face, while their applications are slowly "processed".
