1.   Canada is a former British colony.

2.   But by the end of the nineteenth century there were six British colonies in Australia!

3.   Although Nigeria was still a British colony, he chose to get advanced medical training in the United States rather than Britain.

4.   And Hong Kong was a British colony that was recently returned to a triumphant China.

5.   And so it goes in this former British colony, suddenly the epicenter of a worldwide equities rout.

6.   As a British colony, the Caymans enjoy the traditional English breakfast.

7.   Another respected Asia watcher, managing director William Overholt of Bankers Trust in Hong Kong, plays down the danger to the British colony.

8.   As a former British colony and now a semiautonomous region of China, Hong Kong is a separate trading entity that already has its own membership in the WTO.

9.   As a former British colony and now a semiautonomous region of China, Hong Kong is a separate trading entity with its own membership in the WTO.

10.   As British colonies, they had devised their own voting rules, and they were loath to lose that authority.