In time their campaigns evolved from the mere forays of pirates into organised expeditions that established far-flung colonies overseas.

New materials from far-flung British colonies gave rise to new types of clothing (such as rubber, which made gumboots and mackintoshes possible.)

The dictator never visited the far-flung colony, but there would be plenty of grand buildings to pose in front of if he had.

The British, who invented corrugated iron in 1829, manufactured portable iron churches to send to far-flung colonies like Australia.

At the height of the British Empire, officers and administrators moved freely between far-flung colonies.

France also had an empire in Asia and the Pacific, and these far-flung colonies would experience similar problems of divided loyalties.

This ship holds some three hundred and eighty thousand souls from far-flung colonies of the Empire, planets like Gahvenn and Thalawir.

This scattering of troops over far-flung colonies was likewise a Wellingtonian policy.

They had forcibly reminded the Dutch of the vulnerability of their far-flung colonies.

Unlike the British, Russian emigrants did not leave an island home to enter far-flung colonies.