21.   Alas, the British have nothing to teach their former colonies on this subject.

22.   Britain believed that an independent Gambia would not survive and fully expected its former colony to form some sort of union with Senegal.

23.   Britain responded by slapping its former colony with an arms embargo.

24.   Both companies make much of their earnings in the former British colony.

25.   Brown visited Africa five times, most recently last month, when he warned European powers that they no longer would have guaranteed markets in their former colonies.

26.   British companies are leading those making plans for India, as many were operating in the former British colony for more than a century before nationalization.

27.   But executives here say the former British colony remains one of the worst offenders in Asia for copyright violations.

28.   But he said the government had little choice but to act because the former British colony was under attack by a cabal of foreign hedge funds.

29.   But many African languages and dialects are spoken, and the former British colony still has many English speakers.

30.   But others helped get Antigua, a former British colony, into hot water.