in a/the colony

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• Life in the colony was strictly controlled by the governor.
• The queen is the only reproductive female in an ant colony.
• He wrote a novel about the social dynamics in a British colony during the 19th century.
• Researchers observed the behavior of puffins in their breeding colony.
• New laws were often imposed without the consent of those living in the colony.
• The antibiotic effectively stopped bacterial growth in the lab-grown colony.
• Economic policies benefited the mother country more than the people in the colony.
• Every worker has a specific job to do in the bee colony.
• Many settlers hoped to build a better life for themselves in the new colony.
• There can be thousands of individual birds living in a single colony.