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The phrase "a small colony" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a minor settlement or community, often in a biological, ecological, or historical context.
Example: "The researchers discovered a small colony of rare birds nesting in the remote forest."
Alternatives: "a tiny settlement" or "a minor community."
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"In a small colony, he's the only voice the colonials have in London.
"It makes it a place that's practically a small colony".
There is also a small colony of frigatebirds and blue-footed boobies.
There's a rich migratory bird population and a small colony of wild goats.
When they came back, they found a small colony of 24 living there.
Columbus established a small colony on the north coast, but Indians slaughtered the first settlers.
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Previous histological studies revealed that resistance to M. pinodes in accession P665 was characterized by a lower succeed in colony establishment, associated with the rapid death of the epidermal cell being attacked by M. pinodes and by a smaller colony size [ 34].
S. aureus ΔhemB shows a small-colony phenotype and is auxotrophic for the synthesis of hemin [16].
Yeast unable to respire exhibit a small-colony 'petite' phenotype.
This deleted strain showed a small-colony phenotype, on both fermentable and nonfermentable carbon sources, due to an impairment in the aerobic respiratory chain pathway [ 32].
Several of these genes, including UGO1 and ATP15, have before been associated with the petite-phenotype, a small-colony formation phenotype, which can be intensified by cultivation on non-fermentative growth media.
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