Sentence examples for as a small fleet from inspiring English sources

We watch mutely as a small fleet of monster fishing ships trashes the oceans.

The police described the elder Ms. Cabrera as the boss of a million-dollar crime family that has used the guesthouse, as well as a small fleet of 40-passenger buses, in illegal border crossings for close to a decade.

The social pay-off is the provision of affordable furniture, plus training for the long-term unemployed.Another beacon of social entrepreneurship is Ealing Community Transport (ECT), which started out as a small fleet of rickety minibuses, and now runs a recycling empire and other businesses employing more than 300 people.

Ride-hailing services are ready to ditch their human drivers and switch to driverless as soon as possible — Uber this month rolled out a small fleet of driverless cars in Pittsburgh.

The area began to be served by a small fleet of steamboats known as the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.

The idea was to organize a small fleet in secret and make as rapid as possible a journey north to Hudson Bay from either Newport, Rhode Island or Boston, Massachusetts, the most northerly ports of North America open to French ships.

Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is currently used in a small fleet of taxis as an alternative fuel to gasoline in Taipei, Taiwan as part of an incentive program promoted by Taiwan EPA to improve urban air quality.

And on Catalina Island, off the coast of Los Angeles, a small fleet of Jollys served as taxis into the early 1960s.

Rather than shell out for tugboats (at up to $2 million apiece) to move barges around a site, Orion has built a small fleet of 25-foot, 550hp "push boats" that do the job just as well.

BAGHDAD — A month after the last American troops left Iraq, the State Department is operating a small fleet of surveillance drones here to help protect the United States Embassy and consulates, as well as American personnel.

Athens and Eretria had sent a small fleet in support of the revolt, which Darius took as a pretext for launching an invasion of the Greek mainland.