Sentence examples for about a colony from inspiring English sources

KAREN DeMASTERS Correction: June 24 , 2001 Sunday A headline last Sunday about a colony of monk parakeets misspelled the name of the town where it is situated.

In 1994, however, Dr Oldroyd read about a colony in New Zealand in which this system had broken down and workers had produced their own offspring.

Thanks to her, we learn about a colony of aspens in Utah called Pando: 47,000 trees, genetically identical, connected by a massive root system.

Now 35, having dug himself out of what he called "a black hole," he has finally made another film, "Mister Lonely," a sweetly cockeyed fantasia about a colony of celebrity doppelgängers and a troupe of sky-diving nuns.

The Look article, which was to be a feature story about a colony of artists in East Hampton, never ran, and much of Mr. Vaccaro's film was subsequently lost.

5 May 1821: Rooks attend the birth of the Guardian - the very first edition of the paper features a piece about a colony of rooks in a Manchester garden. 1 January 1873: Window gardening for the poor - plain instructions on how to grow hyacinths.

Well, anyone who has tried to park on Woodland or Ridgewood Avenues lately has noticed the swarms of extras and technicians with headsets scurrying about like a colony of insects.

Cows and goats traipsed about, while a colony of birds curiously, and almost silently, roosted in the nearby trees.

It breeds in groups typically comprising a few pairs, although a colony of about 20 pairs has been recorded on Mauritius.

About 1874 a colony from Connecticut settled the site and called it New Britain.

The last thing that people who can't hold on to their jobs and houses here on Earth want to hear about is a colony on the Moon.