Sentence examples for numbers of ground from inspiring English sources

There simply won't be the numbers of ground combat troops to make that guarantee".

At some point, he said, large numbers of ground troops are likely to be needed.

Small numbers of ground troops were going in to pick off Hizbullah posts near the border.

With the news that small numbers of ground troops have entered Afghanistan, some customers seem more somber, he said.

The defense secretary has repeatedly declined to discuss whether significant numbers of ground forces will be ordered into Afghanistan.

Western states do not intend to use massive numbers of ground troops to restore order in Syria.

In the Vietnam War, large numbers of ground-attack aircraft were shot down by small arms, surface-to-air missiles, and low-level anti-aircraft gunfire, prompting the development of an aircraft better able to survive such weapons.

I've stopped counting the number of ground zero proposals that have come my way in the past two years.

A number of ground support staff who might have worked on the plane are also being investigated.

Avoiding the deployment of a large number of ground troops is a lesson the Bush administration says it has drawn from the ill-fated Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

The American buildup followed, with the number of ground troops climbing to a high of more than 500,000 before General Westmoreland left Saigon.