6 sentences with 'collection'
Example sentences and phrases with the word collection and other words derived from it.
• « Begun in the 1920s, the collection of 17th, 18th and 19th century buildings was transported from all over the country to settle in a corner of Michigan: the streets are cobblestone and there are gas lamps. »
• « Intestinal flora is the term used to refer to the collection of micro-organisms that inhabit the human digestive system, the number of which may be as high as 100 trillion individuals. »
• « Tissue is the collection of cells in an organism that is specialised to perform a particular function (nerve tissue, muscle tissue). »
• « In practice, this involved the collection of food and wealth by the government of each city-state, which it used to "pay" (sometimes in daily allotments of food and beer) the labourers charged with building walls, roads, temples and palaces. »
• « The creation of coins also made tax collection more efficient, strengthening ancient kingdoms and empires. »