11.   Conservation biologists are especially concerned that although prairie dogs still exist throughout their historic range, the colonies are smaller, fewer and more fragmented.

12.   Drywood colonies are smaller.

13.   During a two-day manhunt, the tiny colony in the middle of nowhere is the last stop before sunset.

14.   Elsewhere, a giant ant colony is abuzz with hundreds of worker ants moving crumbs through its sands.

15.   Ferguson said she resents any implication that the Plum Orchard artist colony is a precursor to more private development.

16.   How many original colonies were there in the war?

17.   How many colonies are still under British rule?

18.   In Katthammarsik and the southernmost tip of Gotland there are large colonies of artists.

19.   Keeping mouse colonies is not cheap, so only lavishly funded researchers can afford their own mouse rooms.

20.   More colonies are in the offing.