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He made a fortune by establishing a fleet of Cadillac taxis here in town.

The submarine was silently following a fleet of enemy destroyers.

Our city's fleet of buses is sitting idle today due to a strike by maintenance workers.

A large fleet of fishing boats set out today, signaling the start of the salmon season.

My grandfather once owned a moving business with a small fleet of 5 trucks.

Hong Kong has the world's largest fleet of double-decker buses.

Britain built a fleet of steam-powered submarines in 1915.

Greece's fleet of merchant ships is the largest in the world.

A Greek proverb remarks that he who plunders with a little boat is a pirate, but he who plunders with a fleet is a conqueror.

In 1509, the Portuguese destroyed the Muslim fleet in the Battle of Diu, establishing Portuguese control of Indian waters.

The first fleet of ships carrying convicts to the new penal colony of Australia left England in May of 1787, arriving the following January.

In 1805, British naval hero Lord Horatio Nelson was mortally wounded in the hour of victory over the French fleet at Trafalgar.

A Greek proverb remarks that he who plunders with a little boat is a pirate, but he who plunders with a fleet is a conqueror.

Garbage littering the streets of the city is cleaned up early every morning by a fleet of street sweepers.

The American fleet lost 2 small vessels in the maritime battle.

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