Many of the objects he had spent years collecting would have to be left behind.

After 10 years of hard work collecting fund, they were ready to build the church.

The authors spent 30 years collecting the material for the book.

They spent a little under two years collecting specimens for the book.

"We're going to spend the next two years collecting facts."

Last year the Branch collected £89.67 per head of membership.

Ten years to collect materials and warm my mind with universal science.

Investigators no longer need to spend two years collecting field samples.

I've spent the past three years collecting every scrap of information I could find.

Lyle knows that each year no more than two candidates usually collect the required 75 percent of the vote.