Even if only one queen survives, within a month or so, the colony can expand to thousands of individuals.

This colony has expanded rapidly over the course of a century.

The colony won't expand that much in six months, you know, even with the rash of new endos being born lately.

Initially, the colony thrived and expanded, attracting other homesteaders to the area.

The colonies expand by adding to their foundations and further spreading out.

The colony would slowly expand its British contingent.

The colony expanded greatly during the first Man-Kzin war 2367-2433.

Since the colonies were expanding, the Narragansetts got desperate and began raiding the colonists again.

So the colony grows; this is the way a colony expands in size.

The plan was that our two colonies would expand in opposite directions as the terraforming microbes spread across the continent and the world.