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And, thirdly, the money and materials committed to dreadnoughts reduced the resources available for armies.
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I believe he said that he bitterly regretted that the firstdreadnoughthad ever been built.
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We are spending £100,000 a year on radium for cancer research, or one-eightieth part of the cost of adreadnought.
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Thedreadnought, although it was built only a few years before, simply lagged behind in the battle and never reached it.
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Dreadnoughts' already—of rebuilding the whole of our fleet.
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I see them standing, likedreadnoughtbattleships about to be scuttled, on the side of motorways, inert and inactive.
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That was the cry of the lobby campaigning for an increase in the number of dreadnoughts.
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He said a duke cost as much to maintain as a couple of dreadnoughts, and was just as great a terror and lasted longer.
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Deterrence by bombers was more frightening than deterrence by dreadnoughts.
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Dreadnoughtgets seamen back on ship and fit for work.
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We were told some time ago that in order to build those super-dreadnoughts it would be necessary to spend something like £900,000 on the two main dockyards.
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But consider that in 1914 the great danger was the race in dreadnoughts and that to-day thedreadnoughtis a harmless toy compared with the other armaments which we possess.
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Dreadnoughtwill be docked briefly for an overhaul within the next six months to ensure that that does not happen.
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We started with our dreadnoughts.
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If the country cannot afford to maintain its old people, it cannot afford to provide aeroplanes, dreadnoughts, and all the rest of the instruments of destruction.
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He sees the dreadnoughts scouring every main.
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Their armament was typically a turret taken from a de-commissioned pre-dreadnoughtbattleship.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.After its 1989 revival, this song would become adreadnought, performed frequently through 1990, and occasionally through the rest of the band's career.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The main improvement in engine performance during the pre-dreadnoughtperiod came from the adoption of increasingly higher pressure steam from the boiler.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Coal was the almost exclusive fuel for the pre-dreadnoughtperiod, though navies made the first experiments with oil propulsion in the late 1890s.
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