Sentence examples for sentence behind from inspiring English sources

Ahmed, 51, will serve half the sentence behind bars and the rest on licence.

The athlete was freed two weeks ago in line with sentencing guidelines that say non-dangerous prisoners should spend only a sixth of a custodial sentence behind bars.

After a later D.U.I. arrest, she spent eighty-two minutes of a four-day sentence behind bars, before being released, owing to jail overcrowding.

Lindsay is currently on probation for driving under the influence (DUI) in 2007 after spending 14 days of a 90-day jail sentence behind bars in July 2010.

He asks if Mr Pistorius were a poor black man who had shot his girlfriend in a township in similar circumstances, would he not have been convicted of murder and handed a long sentence behind bars after a cursory investigation?

Pistorius' defence lawyer Barry Roux said he expected the jailed athlete to serve only 10 months of the five-year sentence behind bars, and the remainder under house arrest.

A friendly caution, however: in the elementary levels, a weekend in another language can saute your brain, leaving you momentarily mute and at least a half-sentence behind the person you're straining to understand.

And this was all long before Rick Perry, the Texas governor, struggled to form simple sentences behind the Republican debate lectern.

He was also jailed for two months, and both men must serve half their sentences behind bars.

He leaves his exquisite sentences behind him like a snail leaves its glistening thread; when you look for the man, he is no longer there.

In the 80s and 90s, hundreds of thousands of people were handed decades-long or even life sentences behind bars for nonviolent drug offenses – but the laws have changed.