Sentence examples for few submarines from inspiring English sources

It could, of course, mount an effective economic blockade of Taiwan with just a few submarines patrolling in the Strait.

Labor trade and investment spokeswoman, Penny Wong, said the government's announcement had left "wriggle room" for commercial negotiations to allow the first few submarines to be built offshore.

They've got all these huge aeroplanes hanging from the ceiling, and we managed to see loads and loads of tanks, and a few submarines, and we went inside a submarine simulator.

Shortly after midnight on 1 September, the junior crew members of Almirante Latorre, an armored cruiser, seven destroyers, and a few submarines took over their ships while many of their shipmates were watching a boxing tournament in La Serena.

Kursura has the distinction of being one of the very few submarine museums to retain originality.

Kursura has the distinction of being one of the very few submarine museums to retain originality and has been called a "must-visit destination" of Visakhapatnam.

They would keep tuition fees, but reduce them, and keep Trident, with fewer submarines.

The three other options are reduced patrols and fewer submarines, missiles carried by aircraft, and adapted submarines to carry both conventional and nuclear warheads.

Mr. Olsson said the nature of business has always been cyclical, and it has gotten a bit of a black eye in the last five years or so because as the Navy has ordered fewer submarines after the end of the Cold War, employment has plummeted almost two-thirds, from more than 25,000 to about 9,000.

The Lib Dems say ordering fewer submarines would save up to £4bn in the long term but Conservatives have rejected this - saying the savings made would be "trivial" in respect of the Ministry of Defence's annual £34bn budget.

Prof Chalmers said the Lib Dems had never before spelled out in detail what the alternative should be and maintaining the current system, but with fewer submarines and at a lower cost, could be a potential way forward for them politically.