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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And hard labour ... the railway navvies remembered by a rock band.
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But the hard labour for criminals which replaced judicial execution was so appalling that it was in effect a living death.
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Charged with obscenity the magistrates gave them six months hard labour each.
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He was given six months' hard labour after he refused on principle to pay the fine.
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However, an extra month's hard labour made good the loss.
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The Vote reported one incident of child assault in Surrey, where a man was sentenced to only four months hard labour .
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Theo took a shorter journey-to Wormwood Scrubs, where he did four months' hard labour .
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Workers who lose their jobs are sent to farm camps, along with bureaucrats doing two weeks' hard labour .