"detention" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Could these men have been the cause of his detention?
- Her husband and child were released after 26 days of detention.
- I do not want to go into the details of her continued detention.
- During five months of detention, she never talked to a lawyer.
- He was sentenced to seven and half months of detention.
- Do we want legal authorities to control the conditions of detention?
- In Belgium, for example, the average period of detention is 22 days.
- He was released after eight months of detention on February 5, 1999.
- As at 26 December 2003, the average length of detention for children was one year, 8 months, and 11 days.
- The standard period of detention has just been doubled, from six months to a year.
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