1.   Canada is a former British colony.

2.   Fighting is continuing in the former Belgian colony.

3.   The bond between the mother country and her former colonies grew stronger.

4.   In these former colonies, new dialects of English arose out of contact between speakers of different dialects native to the British Isles.

5.   Although many of the most indebted developing countries are former French colonies, France appears ambiguous about debt relief.

6.   And he knew that the country, a former French colony where fashion consciousness runs high, had plenty of skilled tailors who would not demand American wages.

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

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 Portuguese colony, it was never part of the Dutch empire and played no part in the Indonesian war of independence.

10.   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.