Collocations withcollection
These are words often used in combination withcollection.
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coin collection
They convinced the museum's board to purchase the artifact for $1 million, which the museum funded through the sale of its coin collection.
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collection plate
For every pound that was being put in the collection plate, £3 was being stolen from the vestry.
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collection procedure
A second factor that might influence the relative availability of stem cells is the invasiveness of the collection procedure.
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comprehensive collection
There is a rather comprehensive collection of the conditions of confinement, spherical implosion, ignition burn, and gain.
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corporate collections
His artwork is gathered, collected, and exhibited in galleries that range from colleges, universities, private collections, public collections, and corporate collections.
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data collection instrument
A revised data collection instrument along with training of physicians and public health employees would achieve that goal.
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debut collection
Meanwhile, the debut collection made no impact whatsoever.
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diverse collection
To do so would be to add another, uninvited paper and another point of view to this stimulating and diverse collection.
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document collection
At iteration 0, the entire 122 document collection of parallel text is used.
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eclectic collection
This is, as the back cover blurb proclaims, an 'eclectic collection'.
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edited collection
Arguably it is in this final section that this edited collection makes its strongest contribution to the new literature on social care.
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entire collection
We can apply the transformation to the entire collection of paraboloids at once.
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ethnographic collection
The outstanding ethnographic collection presents a worldwide view of human culture and belief as seen through arts and craft.
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extensive collection
After all, there is an extensive collection of survivors' memoirs and testimonies, in which we can hear the voice of the victims themselves.
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extraordinary collection
In addition, they all have accumulated moderate resistances to an extraordinary collection of physical and chemical antimicrobial agents.
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garbage collection
This largest-sized 3 approach is potentially wasteful but gives flexibility and helps to avoid garbage collection.
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germplasm collection
The present study evaluated the genetic diversity, structure and differentiation in a grape germplasm collection using polymorphisms at eight microsatellite loci.
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growing collection
However, it is an important addition to a small but growing collection of (functional programming) books which could be used on courses other than introductory programming courses.
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heterogeneous collection
However, the standard and method of treatment vary considerably from chapter to chapter, and the result is a heterogeneous collection of review monographs.
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impressive collection
Nevertheless, this is a unique and impressive collection of the data accumulated by archaeologists over the last one hundred years.
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kerbside collection
I therefore urge local authorities to put in place arrangements for the kerbside collection of products, such as batteries, that should not go into landfill.
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large collection
He prepared the butterflies and moths himself and filed them in his large collection.
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leachate collection
A thermostat-controlled vacuum pump connected to the same perforated pipes as serving for leachate collection (as common in bioremediation pile design) draws air from inside the greenhouse into the pile.
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loose collection
While this volume is more than a loose collection of individual contributions, the link between those contributions is a bit weak.
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object collection
They find that four distinct but related processes metaphorically structure basic arithmetic: object collection, object construction, using a measuring stick, and moving along a path.
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outstanding collection
The editors are to be congratulated on assembling an outstanding collection of contributions and contributors.
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permanent collection
The permanent collection is slightly different.
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private collection
At least one six-wheeled coach has been purchased for preservation as part of a private collection on the mainland but this is not publicly accessible.
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rainwater collection
The residents depend on rainwater collection for water supply, which is collected off limestone-coated roofs and channeled into underground storage tanks.
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refuse collection
Here public services have become increasingly substandard with refuse collection either infrequent or ad hoc.
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remarkable collection
Today the conservatory contains a remarkable collection of endangered plants, totaling about 1700 species, of which 20 species have been preserved in large part by the conservatory's actions.
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stamp collection
Other clubs include stamp collection, drawing and painting, photography, gardening, pottery, band and junior cadet crops.
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systematic collection
Lack of systematic collection and analysis; but available information is disclosed.
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toll collection
The toll collection system is expected to be able to meet all demands of traffic using the bridge.
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varied collection
It is a stimulating and varied collection, a mixture of original research and analysis with reviews of current literature.
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vast collection
This vast collection predicts a raging tide of information and opinions, as indeed proves to be the case.
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waste collection
An extension to i this model would be the incorporation of imperfect competition in waste collection.
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weekly collection
How on earth could you have a weekly collection of rates by local authorities?
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