Sentence examples for fleet declined from inspiring English sources

Fleet declined comment on the charges.

She says that Fleet declined to deal with her.

Each year the fleet declined.

But with the submarine fleet declining and budgets tightening after the end of the cold war, Admiral Konetzni used the visitors program to make a case for rebuilding the fleet, working visits into submariners' busy training schedules, officials said.

The large thematic fleets declined and were replaced by small squadrons subject to the local military commanders, geared more towards the suppression of piracy than towards confronting a major maritime foe.

As the size of fishing fleet declines, fishing is concentrated in fewer harbours.

"It means that our fleet has declined and places like Newlyn are nowhere near what they used to be," he said.

Once the Dutch fleet had declined, Dutch mercantile interests became largely dependent on English goodwill, yet the rulers were more concerned with reducing the monumental debt that weighed heavily upon the country.

He noted that while the state's commercial fleet had declined by 11 percent since the 1960s, to about 24,000 registered vessels, the number of recreational fishing vessels had soared to 944,000 in 2009, up from 128,000, in 1964.

When Labor took office in 2007, we were determined to reinvigorate Australian shipping given that the merchant fleet had declined by more than half to just over 20 ships during the Howard government.

Average mileage on Volkswagen's car fleets has declined about 7% the past few years-but sales are up, and VW brands are Europe's number one sellers.