Sentence examples for greatest fleet from inspiring English sources

At the time, I wrongly concluded that developing the dominant operating system was proof of technological power, akin to building the greatest fleet of battleships in the early 20th century, or the pyramids long ago.

"This is the kind of tree that the British used to build the world's greatest fleet of ships back in the 17th and 18th century," Mr. Cohn said, as he climbed the tree, waxing grandiloquent about the denseness of its wood and its resistance to disease.

alan watkins was one of the last of the great Fleet Street characters.

A great fleet flying the flag of St George sails across the stage.

Ribble's image is polished by a great fleet of preserved red buses cared for by the Ribble Vehicle Preservation Trust.

The great fleet of B-47 and B-52 intercontinental bombers already deployed also assured continued American strategic superiority through the early 1960s.

"He was a great Fleet Street colleague," says Brian Jackson, the travel writer and ecologist who shared an office with him at the Sunday Times from 1970.

Last week came purported evidence that the Chinese admiral Zheng He sailed his great fleet of junks round the world a century before Columbus, Da Gama and Magellan.

Yet they were still as jealous as before of his soldiers, and the rather because the war was now carried on principally by sea; Philistus being come from Iapygia with a great fleet to Dionysius's assistance.

Alex Montgomery, one of the great Fleet Street veterans, told a lovely story during the Football Writers Associationn dinner about a trick Dave Mackay used to play on nights out when he would ask for someone to toss a coin in his direction.

Armada, also called Spanish Armada or Invincible Armada, Spanish Armada Española or Armada Invencible, the great fleet sent by King Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England in conjunction with a Spanish army from Flanders.