Sentence examples for decommissioned before from inspiring English sources

Construction on the homeport was actually completed, it turns out, though its intended star tenant, the battleship Iowa, was decommissioned before it could ever drop anchor.

The Space Shuttle program was essential to building the ISS, but once ISS was assembled, the Space Shuttle program had to be decommissioned before the next program (Constellation) could start.

A proportion of these schemes, however, have been decommissioned well before the end of their design life which raises questions about the adequacy of the risk assessment and management practices adopted for recycled water schemes.

At some point in the not-too-distant future, the market will dictate that some mines be decommissioned well before their time.

It would meander south across the Sound and tie in to the power substation built on the grounds of the Shoreham nuclear power plant, which was decommissioned in 1992 before it ever produced electricity.

Massachusetts had been decommissioned the day before to receive similar modernization.

US 295 succeeded PSH 3 during the 1964 state highway renumbering, but was decommissioned in 1968 before the new state highway system was codified.

"At first, it was my dream to become a general," Wang, who would spend almost 17 years in uniform before being decommissioned in the 1986, told the Beijing Times.

The 46-year-old Kitty Hawk, a conventionally powered carrier, was planning to make its last call into Hong Kong before being decommissioned next year.

The detector, installed in the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane, took data for 8 years before being decommissioned in 2011.

Iowa returned to the U.S. for operational and training exercises before being decommissioned on 24 February 1958.