Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment serve an average of 16 years, more for cases considered to be particularly grave.

Translation of title:) "Unibuss-chief: I became very disappointed - did not think that possible corruption-scandal was particularly grave"

What makes the current situation particularly grave is that both substances are gaining ground at the same time.

The State Department properly denounced Iraq for its "particularly grave violation" of the 1925 Geneva protocol outlawing use of gas weapons.

He was particularly grave the whole morning.

The silencing by arson of Koha Jone, whose circulation had tripled in the last two months as the unrest grew, was seen as particularly grave.

The teacher shortage is particularly grave in New York State, which stands to lose half its teaching force over the next 10 years.

The French telephone case was particularly grave, French officials said, because paying for mobile calls is a new and significant expense for households.

She was a little curly-haired woman, very slender, almost always smiling; it took something particularly grave to remove that smile.

But three considerations made the situation confronting Alexander and his colleagues seem particularly grave.