"colony" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In time their campaigns evolved from the mere forays of pirates into organised expeditions that established far-flung colonies overseas.
- New materials from far-flung British colonies gave rise to new types of clothing (such as rubber, which made gumboots and mackintoshes possible.)
- The dictator never visited the far-flung colony, but there would be plenty of grand buildings to pose in front of if he had.
- The British, who invented corrugated iron in 1829, manufactured portable iron churches to send to far-flung colonies like Australia.
- At the height of the British Empire, officers and administrators moved freely between far-flung colonies.
- France also had an empire in Asia and the Pacific, and these far-flung colonies would experience similar problems of divided loyalties.
- This ship holds some three hundred and eighty thousand souls from far-flung colonies of the Empire, planets like Gahvenn and Thalawir.
- This scattering of troops over far-flung colonies was likewise a Wellingtonian policy.
- They had forcibly reminded the Dutch of the vulnerability of their far-flung colonies.
- Unlike the British, Russian emigrants did not leave an island home to enter far-flung colonies.
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