To fly all these people around, AirAsia is amassing an enormous fleet of new planes.
Word reached London that the Spanish king, Philip II, had begun to assemble an enormous fleet that would sail to the Netherlands, join forces with a waiting Spanish army led by the duke of Parma, and then proceed to an invasion and conquest of Protestant England.
World War II covered the whole world, involving enormous fleets of ships and armadas of warplanes, with airborne drops and tank battles and amphibious landings on or near four continents.
This is what Wal-Mart did with fuel costs, which the company reduced by $26 million per year simply by changing the way it managed its enormous truck fleet.
But Vale rejects suggestions that a government "golden share" gives it the power to block deals.Vale's decision to sell its aluminium business and to order a fleet of enormous ships from China has annoyed the Brazilian government, which is trying to revive Brazil's shipbuilding industry.
But a Union Pacific official testified that the task of equipping its entire U.S. fleet is enormous and the company is struggling to meet the federal 2015 deadline.
Let me quote from Chalmers Johnson's Nemesis (p. 141): "Before our withdrawal from Saudi Arabia in 2003, we habitually denied that we maintained a fleet of enormous and easily observed B-52 bombers in Jeddah because that was what the Saudi government demanded".
Successfully, as it were, for both times the Mongol fleets suffered enormous damage from sudden storms, divine winds that became known in Japanese as the kamikaze.During the latter years of the Ming empire, the armies of Toyotomi Hideyoshi launched repeated attacks against Korea as part of a grander plan to conquer the mainland.
According to ADEME (the French Environment and Energy Management Agency), the French fleet has made enormous progress as regards pollution: an HGV with a total authorized loaded weight of 40 tonnes consumed 34 litres per 100 km in 2010, compared with 50 litres in 1970.
G.M. prospered partly because of enormous shipments of cars to fleets; Paul Ballew, executive director of market analysis at General Motors, said that the company's extra fleet sales alone had increased the seasonally adjusted annual rate of sales in January by 200,000 vehicles.
At Phaleron, where the fleet was expected, an enormous crowd was assembled on the quays.
