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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a ships" is not correct in written English.
It should be "a ship" if referring to a single vessel, or "ships" if referring to multiple vessels without the article "a."
Example: "I saw a ship sailing in the distance."
Alternatives: "a vessel" or "one ship."
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All ships that do not come within the provisions regarding Type "A" ships are considered as Type "B" ships.
The Class A ships represent 19 nations and, in their histories, a wide variety of seagoing purposes.
Type "A" ships are those which are designed to carry only liquid cargoes in bulk, and in which the cargo tanks have only small access openings closed by watertight gasketed covers of steel or equivalent material.
Picture a fleet a ships floating gently down from Washington.
About a ships' crew that hadn't received any mail for five months.
The second violinist of a ships orchestra sees New York for the first time.
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Author, a ships-musician and his friend Marcel, also a member of the orchestra, take a holiday trip to South America.
Once the grown Senta begins to take part — as a laborer in a ships-in-a-bottle manufacturing facility — the staging turns more conventional, yet we still see the opera from her perspective as an outsider.
By Joseph Wechsberg The New Yorker, September 23 , 1944P. 23 Author, a ships-musician and his friend Marcel, also a member of the orchestra, take a holiday trip to South America.
Illustration of a ship.
Or take a ship.
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