The phrase "a growing armada" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an increasing number of ships or vehicles, often in a military or strategic context.
Example: "As tensions rose in the region, a growing armada of naval vessels began to assemble near the coast."
Alternatives: "an expanding fleet" or "a rising fleet".
A growing armada of coalition warplanes, armed with more precise information about the location and abilities of Libyan Army units than was known a week ago, have effectively provided the air cover the ragtag opposition has needed to stave off certain defeat in its de facto eastern capital, Benghazi.
Reluctant to slash production, which can do permanent harm to the oil fields, Iranian officials are storing the excess in a growing armada of supertankers that are anchored in the vicinity of the country's main oil terminals in the Persian Gulf, according to the International Energy Agency, a platform for oil consuming countries.
That cycle can't continue indefinitely — any more than we can continue indefinitely sucking oil out of the ground to fuel an ever-growing armada of automobiles.
He had, for instance, called for a raft of military spending: growing the Army and Marines to a ridiculous size, building a Navy to reach a seemingly arbitrary and budget-busting number of ships, creating a mammoth air armada of fighter jets, pouring money into a missile defense boondoggle, and recruiting a legion of (presumably overweight) hackers to wage cyber war.
Under the growing threat of the Spanish Armada in 1587, Burghley parleyed with Parma, courted Henry of Navarre and James VI of Scotland, and kept a sharp eye on the Irish and English Catholics.
Beset by the growing popularity of the iPhone and an armada of Android-based devices, RIM has been suffering for some time.
BEIJING — China has permitted rare street protests and sent armadas of fishing boats to show its growing national interest in a small string of islands in the East China Sea.
BEIJING — An armada of Chinese and Russian warships sailed in ceremonial formation in the Sea of Japan, off the port of Vladivostok, on Wednesday in what was the high point of joint naval exercises intended to show the growing unity between two countries with a historically uneasy relationship.
The fleet of mobile strike force vehicles, burly and beige, each 19 tons with a gun turret and two layers of armor, was shown off by Afghan forces on Tuesday, part of a hugely expensive armada now being delivered here as American forces place increasing emphasis on equipping and training the growing ranks of Afghan soldiers and police officers.
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The US and other western nations have an anti-piracy armada patrolling the waters off east Africa, but there is no west African counterpart, leaving Nigeria and its neighbours to stop the growing attacks on their own.
