Mr. Monti described himself as a collector, one who has assembled a collection of 60,000 stamps from every corner of the world since his childhood.

And it is a bright constellation, assembled since the war and at an accelerated pace in recent years.

The collection of over two hundred cars has been assembled since 1934 by two generations of the Louwman family.

In this country Chery models have been assembled from knock-down kits since 2006.

At least five drafts of the speech have been assembled since Christmas, and Mr. Clinton is working on yet another this weekend.

He is remembered for being an antiquarian who assembled the greatest collection of Roman sculpture assembled in private hands since antiquity.

Of the 500 kits assembled since May 1992, the venture sold only 12, one analyst said.

The collection numbers some 1500 works, assembled since the institute was established in 1978.

The library has been assembled since the end of World War Two by acquisition and donations.

Since the corpses were not scattered or tumbled about, it was clear that they had been assembled since the withdrawal of the frightful winds.