noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a book/volume/collection of poems
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She has a new collection of poems coming out soon.
a book/volume/collection of poetry
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He had two books of poetry published.
a CD collection
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Luke has a massive CD collection.
a collection of essays
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She published a collection of essays on philosophy.
collection box
collection plate
data collection
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Choosing the right method of data collection will be crucial to the experiment’s success.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
extensive
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She undertook the first serious application of photography to science by making photograms of her extensive collection of algae.
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His extensive collection on transgenderism includes his own diaries as far back as junior high school.
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Most trains are steam hauled by one of the railway's extensive collection of tank engines and include full buffet car facilities.
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Preservation is less a problem than exhibition. Extensive collections of silent classics are maintained in public and private film archives.
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Maybe if you'd spared a few minutes, you could've become part of Gillian Wearing's extensive collection of personalised banners.
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The Society already has an extensive collection of gas appliances which will also be displayed.
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The Library has an extensive collection of files for correspondence and papers on all aspects of the Department's work.
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The latter proteins are also responsible for the exceptionally smooth consistency of all the Hydro-Protein cosmetic treatments in this extensive collection .
fine
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Investigating officers hope to seize the car, house and a fine collection of designer jewels at a hearing this spring.
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Read in studio Part of one of the finest book collections in the world is being auctioned tomorrow.
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Compton House, another stately home, houses a fine collection of butterflies from all over the world.
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But this was by then certainly one of the finest collections of its kind, if not the finest, in existence.
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The first rooms here contain very fine collections of stove tiles from the medieval period and the Renaissance.
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In an adjoining spinning mill there is a fine collection of early spinning machinery and power looms.
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They seemed to be mostly marine literature, and a fine collection .
great
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I had an older brother who had and still has a great collection of 45s, but we were actually swimmers.
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Nor was this the only subtle and half-conscious bias which shaped this great collection .
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You can create a superb living room spring garden with a great indoor bulb collection for only £13.95.
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We've also chosen a great collection of great curly styles to help you find the look you want.
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One of the greatest comprehensive collections of the decorative arts, natural history, geology and technology in the United Kingdom.
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These were the growth of organised and comprehensive diplomatic archives and the publication of the first great printed collections of international treaties.
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Crammed under one roof is one of the world's greatest collections of artefacts, from human cultures through the ages.
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Purchases of prints included sheets from the great Lanna collection sold in 1909 and 1910.
important
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Christie's offered the second part of the important Korthaus collection in a mixed owner sale.
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The particular materials are not important; what is important is that collections be available for exploration.
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Then in the 1960s Picasso gave an important collection to the city and Miró a large donation of paintings and sculptures.
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She says it's one of the most important collections of the century.
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Other important London history collections will be searched in due course.
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The Frith &038; Co. archive in Reigate became one of the most important collections of topographical photographs in existence.
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From this pontificate come, not surprisingly, important collections of church, or canon, law.
large
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A much larger collection - 200 products - will be published and sent to five million homes next February.
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All along, authorities feared for their safety, because du Pont is an expert marksmen with a large gun collection .
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There are two comfortable lounges with open fires, one with a large collection of books for guests to read.
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Immediate access without formality to the largest public collection of science literature in Northern Ireland.
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To do this, one needs large collections in order to make comparisons.
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There is an already large microfilm collection , including microfiche herbaria.
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Barat et Haimet is one of the robber's tales, relatively long and preserved in four large manuscript collections of fabliaux.
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Dwarfs and miniatures are becoming increasingly popular as you can grow a large , varied collection in quite a small space.
motley
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The party is not a motley collection of ageing hippies, but an arm of a wealthy and complex organisation.
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If so, is what you have put together really just a motley collection with a messy clash of styles and materials?
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These confiscated nets were a very motley collection .
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All had several days' growth of beard and were dressed in a motley collection of civilian clothing.
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A motley collection of tawdry items was scattered over an area at least four feet square.
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A middle-aged couple got out and began to unload a motley collection of boxes and bags.
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A group appear from the house, a motley collection like a troupe of clowns.
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Photographs of the period show groups of men in a motley collection of semi-uniform.
permanent
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Meanwhile, the town's Musée des Beaux Arts will be showing a selection of the Carré d'Art's permanent collection .
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The Center for International Exhibitions would have non-profit Kunsthalles without permanent collections in those cities.
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Museum and Art Gallery host exhibitions and a permanent collection .
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He is considering ways' to develop exhibitions beyond the permanent collection that will relate to different sectors of the population.
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This matched the initial outlay by the city, regional and provincial governments for the building and a £20 million permanent collection .
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It will also be used to show work by design students inspired by the permanent collections .
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Portions of the collection also will be rotated in a permanent collection gallery.
private
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Right: Victor Hugo, ink blot, about 1855. Private collection , Paris.
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Many of these treasures had been repurchased by Cartier, but some remain today in private collections .
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The influence of works such as Brittania led to the creation of private collections , and so to the formation of private museums.
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There are probably a number of books with the Coats bookplate, many in Gaelic, to be found in private collections .
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Eight paintings, supplemented with a generous selection of drawings and prints, have been lent by private and public collections .
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Many of the works are from private collections and have not previously been exhibited.
small
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Slight knowledge of other inhabitants comes from a small collection of material.
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Van Buskirk, who had already begun a small collection at the library, joined the effort early.
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A small collection of reference books is a most valuable asset on any farm.
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Triumphantly he promised four breeding pairs from his own small collection to the Trust.
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Highly suitable for a small children's collection with modest funds for annual updating of stock. 8.
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Ultrasound showed a small subhepatic fluid collection .
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Do not miss the fine but small collection of icons in this gallery too.
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Civilisation soon came back into evidence again as we approached the small collection of buildings of North Eggardon Farm.
■ NOUN
art
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Go right here to reach almost immediately the Poldi-Pezzoli Museum and one of the most prestigious private art collections in the world.
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He can well afford extravagances and is expected to expand his art collection still further.
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New public art outside of the gallery is something of an oxymoron since ironically most art collections are public.
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You can use images from either your Clip Art collection or your hard drive.
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It has an interesting art collection including works by Henry Moore and Max Ernst.
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But it is Winterthur's art collections that almost dwarf the rest of its cultural life.
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The outlet for this fortune, apart from an art collection which shames the San Diego Museum of Art, is his sailing.
record
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Marlin's record collection was chiefly seduction songs of his sixties adolescence, which suited her fine.
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Celestine was scraping the last traces from her bowl when Lufkin walked over to the cabinet holding his record collection .
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This is one Luna that deserves asylum in your record collection .
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The only thing that's ultra tidy is my record collection .
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Early music influences: His sister's record collection .
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They've scoured their record collections for their favourite chic embellishments soas to enhance the luxury commodity aura of their product.
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Pastimes include listening to his vast record collection , cooking, photography and snooker.
tax
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The initial order calls for 350 multi-user tax collection systems to be installed in Moscow by the end of the year.
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They created an administrative grill, issuing identity cards to families, partly to control them and partly to streamline tax collection .
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Since August, retail sales, tourism and tax collection have all plunged.
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Officials had said the Kremlin meeting would focus on back wages, tax collection and military reform.
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It also envisaged changes in the tax collection system.
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The budgets for federal law enforcement and tax collection would both be down more than 10 percent in real terms by 2002.
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It is, though, not entirely clear to what extent they were liable for tax collection and assessment.
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Their intent is to seek a court order to stop the tax collection .
■ VERB
add
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If it has the album if its library, it adds the your personal collection .
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Do you think you will be adding to the collection ?
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Two acres have been added to its six-acre collection of grave sites.
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The tomb was added to the collection in the early years of the century.
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Later, Taylor added sticks to the collection .
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Certainly one to add to the collection of board games available on shareware such as monopoly and chess.
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Worth adding to your collection of graphical adventures and other Hugo Games.
build
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However, with the help of grants and donations we have continued to build the collections .
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An office is not merely a building but a complex collection of very human processes.
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School library services are also now increasingly building up software collections , allowing school librarians and teachers to see demonstrations of software.
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Eventually he built up a collection of bells which he played in time to the tunes he would play on his harmonium.
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John also began building up a collection of gramophone records.
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This does involve a lot of money laid out on different colours and a lot of time to build up a collection .
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As one of his responsibilities he began to build up a permanent collection of works of Art for West Riding Schools.
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Gradually he builds up a collection of all sorts of different books and reads them secretly at night while his wife sleeps.
house
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The possibility of a new wing to house the future photographic collections is under discussion.
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The society is also arranging a house to house collection .
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Railway enthusiasts will be interested in the Richard Guinness Hall which houses his magnificent collection of many prototypes of early railway engines.
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The Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle houses an exquisite collection of objetsd'art.
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For a short time in the 1920s this library housed the collections of the National Gallery.
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Baron Ferdinand wanted to house his fine collections and have somewhere to entertain his guests.
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Today the Gallery houses a fine collection of furniture and paintings.
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More surprisingly, the Pitti Palace at Florence housed a collection of amber vessels, cabinets, figures, caskets and crucifixes.
include
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Miss Bosworth's hat library includes a collection of styles from the forties, fifties and sixties as well as more up-to-date models.
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A heavily revised version of this madrigal was included in Morley's collection .
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This year's annual sale of photographs and related material includes pieces from the collection of the Reverend Calvert Jones.
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The firm's wines, mostly bearing its own distinctive labels, include a magnificent collection of ready-to-drink burgundy.
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Analysis of the choice opportunity to include data collection and evaluation of alternatives. 3.
publish
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Ramsey's last act for the Durham diocese was to publish a collection of his Durham Essays and Addresses.
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Publishers will not publish chancy, fat collections when they can publish a small number of readily marketable volumes.
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Contest is open to all Arizona poets without a full-length, published collection to their name.
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Rather than produce a catalogue, the Ruskin Programme is publishing a collection of scholarly essays to mark the occasion.
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Whatever it meant in 1943 has been superseded by its function as an introduction to the published collection .
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She was syndicated in 20 cities within a month, and published her first collection of essays two years later.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a motley collection/crew/assortment etc
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A group appear from the house, a motley collection like a troupe of clowns.
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A middle-aged couple got out and began to unload a motley collection of boxes and bags.
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All had several days' growth of beard and were dressed in a motley collection of civilian clothing.
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If so, is what you have put together really just a motley collection with a messy clash of styles and materials?
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Photographs of the period show groups of men in a motley collection of semi-uniform.
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The party is not a motley collection of ageing hippies, but an arm of a wealthy and complex organisation.
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When he stalked out he left her with a motley crew mostly of accountants and lawyers.
house-to-house inquiries/search/collection etc
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Another was a newcomer to our church and to our city, doing an Edinburgh house-to-house collection for the first time.
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It was Major Volpi who had been given responsibility for putting up road-blocks and carrying out house-to-house searches.
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Officers would also be making house-to-house inquiries, said a Hertfordshire Police spokesman.
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Peacekeeping troops set up road blocks and conducted house-to-house searches.
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Road blocks were set up and a helicopter brought in from Manchester as police began house-to-house inquiries.
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Some 200 militants were arrested in house-to-house searches beginning on April 13.
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The street collection raised £255.41 and the house-to-house collection realised £2,928.
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We will be making street and house-to-house collections during Battle of Britain Week.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a collection of ancient Greek coins
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a collection of old newspapers
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a coin collection
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Armani's summer collection
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Christmas trees can be picked up with regular trash collection .
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Have you seen Alvin's stamp collection ?
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Have you seen her CD collection - it's enormous!
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On the shelf was his mother's collection of crystal vases.
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Perrault published his collection of fairy tales in 1697.
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The collection of data is not always something that a researcher can control.
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The museum has a superb collection of Mexican pottery.
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The museum has one of the world's finest collections of Impressionist paintings.
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The new system should speed the collection of debts in the future.
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the Permanent Collection at the Whitney Museum
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They get together and behave like a real collection of idiots.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Designer of the Year Vivienne Westwood included ripped denim in her Spring/Summer 1991 collection .
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Most of the conglomerates which were made up of a disparate collection of businesses have failed.
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Of course, PeÜek's collection automatically scores points over the competition by virtue of its uniqueness.
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One needs the basic skills of research, including the ability to use the full resources of a research collection .
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Special thanks to Laura Ashley at Ipswich for providing the outfits pictured which were from their summer collection .
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The collection is one of the most important of its kind in the United States and focuses on landscape and still life.
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This will be followed by a period of continued observation and data collection of the target behavior or set of behaviors.