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Meanings of longer sentences in English

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Usage of longer sentences in English
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On top of that, we get longer sentences for the same crime.
Ebony
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That compares with half for longer sentences in Britain and two-thirds in Germany.
Reuters
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Johnson-Cummings know that longer sentences play no role in combating drugs and gangland crime.
The Guardian
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People started outbidding each other to vote on longer sentences.
Ebony
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Very few among us would lose much sleep over murderers getting much longer sentences.
News.com.au
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The guys were always yelling for longer sentences at the end of the show.
Joe Burke's Last Stand
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Almost all my companions had longer sentences than I had.
Six Years in the Prisons of England
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Dealing now with longer sentences, she betrayed her foreign half.
A Woman-Hater
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Prisons, which hold convicted criminals on longer sentences, also are fertile ground for the virus.
Reuters
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Next we should apply ourselves to declaiming longer sentences.
Poise: How to Attain It
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Ever longer sentences have contributed to this phenomenon.
The Guardian
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Some of the longer sentences were left unfinished.
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
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The judge told the girls they would have been facing much longer sentences if they were adults.
The Guardian
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Idleness, hooliganism and repeated imprisonments for petty crime, until something more serious happens, and then longer sentences.
London's Underworld
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People with mental illness are less likely to make bail and more likely to face longer sentences.
The Guardian
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The idea that prison incapacitates criminals and that longer sentences do so for longer is a better justification.
The South African
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
Common