Portuguese royal fleets would have freedom of the bay.
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By its nature, the journalist's footing as journalist is sustained, while that of the speaker as ironist is fleeting.
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The local details, therefore, are fleeting but informative and graphically displayed.
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However, fashion attracted him in the first place because it was associated with frivolity, fleeting fads, expense, and meaninglessness.
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Elements such as the shine of metal armour, the folds of clothes and draper y and, above all, fleeting facial expressions such as laughter, are transformed.
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The sight of fishless sushi houses surrounded by fishing fleets and salad-less restaurants surrounded by fields of lettuce and tomatoes prompted many chefs to visit a farm or dock.
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As studies of both hypnagogic imagery and "disorders of arousal" demonstrate, even fleeting experiences of hallucinatory content are sufficient to generate bona fide, albeit diminutive, reports of dream mentation.
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Both fleets will suffer very serious injury.
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The equality of 1900 was fleeting.
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The longline and mini and medium-scale purse seine fleets display considerable excess capacity, especially when the capacity output includes the effects of technical inefficiency (table 2).
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All else being equal, the epistemic status of a mild and fleeting religious conviction is more vulnerable to epistemic impact from diversity than a deep and abiding one.
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Perhaps most significantly, exploring some of these themes allows a glimpse of the fragile, contingent, and fleeting processes that are sometimes catalogued under the category of cultural change.
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Such metaphors are no less forceful at those brief moments when the solo voices broach sound-images of distress, and fleeting contact with operatic precedent is made.
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All the fleets were fully manned with their proper complements.
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Getting the best from company transport fleets will save money, save energy and help save the environment.
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Collocationswithfleet
fleet
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ageing fleet
Two years later there is still no sign of those mine-sweepers, which are desperately needed to replace theageingfleet.
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combined fleet
Thecombinedfleetnow consisted of 12 ships of the line, 11 frigates and many smaller vessels.
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commercial fleet
In 1945, thecommercialfleetnumbered 446,879 vehicles of all kinds in the service of trade.
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