Meanings of assemble a collection in English

For years too the way to assemble a collection had been to plunder someone else's.

In one expedition lasting two years, he hiked 2,500 miles to assemble a collection of 300,000 wasps.

Souren often is paid to assemble a collection for some man who wants to own a lot of stamps but isn't sure which ones.

She became involved in the peace movement, assembling a collection of photographs.

On the side, chiefly by purchase, he assembled a collection of North American birds.

Diego Fasolis and I Barocchisti have assembled a collection of overtures and dances from his operas.

The company began assembling a collection of historically significant manuscripts and other antiquities in 2009, prosecutors said.

Assemble a collection of school-boys together.

Last year Limerick's Hunt Museum assembled a collection of work by Irish artist Roderic O'Conor for its summer exhibition.

There is a considerable difference between assembling a collection retrospectively, in one fell swoop, and incrementally, over a period.

The Infinity Project started six years ago with the simple idea of assembling a collection of new hard science fiction stories.

He said he persuaded his business partner Barry Smyth to invest some of their income in art and began assembling a collection.

Within two years he had assembled a collection of nearly five hundred works, including paintings by Titian, Raphael, Tintoretto, Veronese, Holbein, Michelangelo, Poussin, and Leonardo.

The Constable found a wooden tray and carried it about the room, cautiously assembling a collection of cups, saucers, spoons, tongs, and other tea-related armaments.

He assembled a collection of small bills and waited for his change and said, "Go over what you were telling me about the metal plant."