The next year Weir began building sailing ships of modern design and within a few years had built up a fleet of 52.

William the Conqueror had earlier built up a fleet but is thought to have waited until the English one's supplies ran out.

Shortly afterwards we began timidly and hesitatingly to build up a fleet.

I'd built up a small fleet of ships by the time the Boman swept down from the north.

The company built up a fleet of 134 tramcars in a chocolate and cream livery.

I plan to build up a fleet the way your father did.

It would build up a sizeable fleet before scaling back its charter operations in the early 1990s.

The group built up a fleet of 70 small ships divided into 10 squadrons.

Soon it built up a fleet of 4 new vessels.

The Government would try to build up a home-grown fleet to replace the foreign fishermen they were chasing away.