The phrase "a collection of lost" is not complete and lacks clarity in written English.
It could be used in contexts where you are referring to a group of items, people, or things that are lost, but it needs additional context to be fully understood.
Example: "The museum displayed a collection of lost artifacts from ancient civilizations."
Alternatives: "a group of lost" or "a set of lost".
There is his flip-flop garden -- a collection of lost sandals delivered by the tide -- and his tree with a battered shoe outfitting every branch.
The New Orleans flophouse of Tennessee Williams's "Vieux Carré" contains a collection of lost souls living on imagined glories, past or future, and desperately looking for an escape route through sex or drugs or both.
Through energetic palaver about medical problems, cooking, and entertainment, the characters begin to reveal the fragility of their identities: we're looking at a collection of lost souls trying to dummy up a destiny for themselves.
Now, another attempt at musical rehab is underway with the release of a collection of lost songs, most of which were recorded in 1984 and have been assembled under the title "Out Among the Stars".
Now, another attempt at musical rehab is underway with the release of a collection of lost songs, most of which were recorded in 1984 and have been assembled under the title "Out Among the Stars". Johnny Cash's son, John Carter Cash, is trying to redeem his father's lost decade.
There are two principal ways to represent arrayCGH data: as a log-ratio collection, or as a collection of status (lost, normal or gained, usually represented as −1, 0 and 1, which correspond to the sign of the log ratio).
That represents the largest collection of lost data on record.
Or perhaps he could have joined GroupMeh, a collection of placidly bitter lost souls.
This is Mr. Jones's first novel, following a collection of short stories, "Lost in the City".
Beyond the Favre-Pennington buildup, there was a rebuilt Jets team, a collection of additions sometimes lost when 10,500 people show up to practice to watch the quarterback.
It is a collection of teams that lost on opening day (Philadelphia and New England), two teams that once played in the same division (Indianapolis and New England) and two that have only sparse connections (Carolina and Philadelphia).
