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Valery, that’s not idiomatic
Его приговорили к 20 годам тюрьмы
He was sentenced to 20 years (in prison)
He was handed a 20-year sentence
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.