Meaning of “four into a ten stretch”

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There's a Netflix series called "The Gentlemen". The following dialogue takes place in it.

Man: "So I hear your dad's caught a nasty cold. How long's he got left?"

Woman: "He's four into a ten stretch."

Man: "Ouch."

What does "four into a ten stretch" mean?

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One meaning of stretch according to Green's Dictionary of Slang:

in prison/Und. uses [abbr. SE stretch of time].

  • a twelve-month sentence; thus two stretch, two years; three stretch, three years etc

Thus: four [years] into a ten [year] stretch [of prison time]

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