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collection

A collection is a group of things of the same type. They are usually special in some way. He has one of the biggest collections of paintings by Van Gogh. If you take a collection, you ask many people for money, for a particular reason. The school took a collection for new books.

collection

several things grouped together or considered as a whole a publication containing a variety of works the act of gathering something together (= appeal) request for a sum of money an appeal to raise money for starving children

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Simple sentences

This museum displays a fascinating collection of Celtic objects.
Science is far more than a collection of facts and methods.
The museum has a fascinating collection of Celtic artifacts.
This art collection is rich in paintings by Dutch masters.
This library has a large collection of Chinese books.
As compared with his, my collection is nothing.
I have a large collection of stamps.
I would like to have a look at your collection of stamps.
I have a collection of silver tea spoons from all over the world.
He showed me his stamp collection.
She takes great pride in her stamp collection.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
One would like to have a collection of last words of famous people.
I'd like to have a look at your stamp collection.
The collection is open to the public.
He has accumulated quite a collection of books.
I'd like you to see my collection of stamps.
Moreover it's difficult to get rubbish out for garbage day because the collection time is too early.
This museum has a magnificent collection of modern art.
Seeing my collection of frogs would make your hair stand on end.
I have a collection of towels I've stolen from many different hotels I've stayed at.

Movie subtitles

The new spring collection, and totally out of my price range, but I'm signing my official start papers with Oliver today, and I felt like I had to step up my fashion game, you know?
We all love that line, but Felipe Paduano thinks I buried his last collection too deep in the book.
The other day I found some interesting things for my collection.
This ruby is part of the gem collection that has been stolen from the Duke of Axminster.
May I congratulate you, sir. on the amazing collection of plants you've assembled here.
After the Duke has obliged, take it to some good lawyer for collection.
And there's your collection plate, Deacon.
He built Shangri-La, taught the natives and began our collection of art.
I'll help you with your collection.
I'm afraid this here is one gun your collection's gonna be minus.
You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk!
And, why should poor Mama have to leave her collection of china behind?
Don't you know that the sultan has the greatest collection of toys in the world?
You know, I have the largest collection of these mechanical devices. in the whole wide world.
A Collection from Uppsala University.
I have quite a collection of royal portraits.
Why don't you get up a collection?
Well, I got behind in my payments on the typewriter and they turned it over to you for collection.
I represent the We Never Sleep Collection Agency.
If you and Dr. Watson would care to see my little collection.
Oh, a very modest little collection.
Be honest, kid, you were worried about her finding your porno collection.
Alfo, I'll be expecting you tomorror to visit my collection.
The following day, Wendland and Ma visit the collection of the Prince.
He was most anxious to see your collection before going away.
Sure. I'll help you with your collection.
Well, I'm sorry, Mr Kent. I'm afraid this here is one gun your collection's gonna be minus.
The only keys I ever saw in church were in the collection basket.
The greatest collection in the entire world.
An original piece of the period it was for many years a part of the famous Holbrook collection.
Here, Mrs. Agnew, new matchbooks for your collection.
Quite a collection.
I was working on my stamp collection anyway.

News and current affairs

After all, wasn't Italy, until 1860s, a collection of kingdoms and principalities?
And if the electoral numbers break down right, she could conceivably assemble a collection of regional and left-wing parties and stake a claim to rule India.
But the most over-hyped argument concerns Russia's feeble tax collection.
This vast collection of knowledge, culture, and literary achievement is inaccessible to most people.
This can include broadening the tax base, reducing tax avoidance and evasion, improving tax collection, and developing new, cooperative international taxation strategies.
Excise taxes may be levied when goods leave a factory or arrive at a port, simplifying measurement, collection, and monitoring, while ensuring coverage and limiting evasion.
During the new government's first three months, trends in industrial production, services, construction, consumption and, worst of all, tax collection reversed.
The process is not all that different from the data collection and analysis that many corporations use to target their ads at us more effectively, or that give us the online search results that we are most likely to want.
True, withholding makes tax collection easier and that is the point.
When it suits them, the euro is no longer the currency of a highly successful and integrated economy, but a currency shared by a collection of sovereign creditor and debtor countries, and the IMF thus has a responsibility to support the debtor members.
Some people ascribe the global collapse of reform efforts to a peculiarly ineffective collection of leaders.
The Doha Round of WTO talks was a flop, and the agreement reached in Bali last year, despite being sold as a success, does little more than accelerate the collection of customs duties.
The reduction in tax collection can increase disposable income.
Likewise, while it is now cheap to disseminate existing information, the collection and production of new information often requires major investment, and, in many competitive situations, new information matters most.
NEW DELHI - Ernest Hemingway's collection of stories, Men without Women, examines tense gender relationships.
So why haven't success stories like that of the Beery twins, together with the Internet's power and increasingly affordable collection of molecular data, led to the construction of a knowledge network of disease?
Given the difficulty and expense of separating plastics, the most economically viable option is often secondary recycling of a few commodity thermoplastics - mostly bottles, for which collection infrastructure is already in place.
The fiscal bureaucracy, too, is being modernized, with the deployment of electronic tax notifications and other administrative reforms boosting revenue collection while diminishing the size of the informal economy.
The sadder thing, though, is that this money would be spent on methane collection from waste dumps in developing nations, instead of on helping those countries' citizens deal with more pressing concerns like health and education.
CAMBRIDGE - Europe is now struggling with the inevitable adverse consequences of imposing a single currency on a very heterogeneous collection of countries.
The rule of law is absent, and much more effort is spent on extortion and rent collection than production.
Russia's most famous museum, the Hermitage, is second only to the Louvre in its collection of French art.
Indeed, in the preface to a recent collection of his speeches, Vajpayee wondered whether democracy had truly taken root in India.
They are the ones responsible for providing safe water, garbage collection, safe housing, infrastructure, upgraded slums, protection from disasters, and emergency services when catastrophes hit.
This goal may seem to be beyond even wealthier countries' means; but the intelligent collection, analysis, and use of educational data could make a big difference.
In some cases, data-collection technology is outpacing our ability to decide how it should be collected, stored, and shared.

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