⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment 5 years ago
Valery, that’s not idiomatic
Его приговорили к 20 годам тюрьмы
Valery, that’s not idiomatic
If anything, “twenty-year” would be hyphenated. But the bottom line is that we don’t say it like that - you only read “sentenced to a xx-year imprisonment” in articles written in foreign media.