They could face up to 50 years in prison on those charges, although their actual sentences are expected to be substantially less.

The second line is a single image, often more specific than the first two, and the third line approaches an actual sentence.

The actual sentence was something like "Florence is not **so bad** to be below number 50".

Typically they have few or no possibilities of substitution in an actual sentence:

After that they read us our actual sentences.

And at the end of a very long day at the tribunal Friday, his actual sentence was only nine months.

I do my best to mold them into actual sentences.

While Mr. Nelson's trip through the justice system was long, his actual sentence is likely to be quite short.

And he had dodged the actual sentence of death.

Their actual sentences could be considerably less, however, because of discretion granted the sentencing judge.