Meanings of considerable colonies in anglès

Spain and Portugal were manufacturing countries before they had any considerable colonies.

In Seattle, Butte, Chicago, and Indianapolis they form considerable colonies.

No doubt there were already considerable colonies of foreign merchants in Canton and other coastal towns, trading in Indian and Middle East goods.

As merchants and colonists, the Greeks were, in Gaul, the successors of the Phoenicians, and Marseilles was one of their first and most considerable colonies.

Pine-trees grew thickly all over, but here and there were patches of silver birch, scrub oak, and considerable colonies of wild raspberry and gooseberry bushes.