The phrase "a mere collection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is simply a group or assortment of items, often implying that it lacks significance or value.
Example: "The museum's latest exhibit felt like a mere collection of artifacts without any cohesive theme or narrative."
Alternatives: "just a compilation" or "simply an assortment".
An aggregate collectivity is a mere collection of individuals such as a crowd or the people standing at a bus stop or a statistical category such as middle-income earners.
On the surface, the conversation might seem like a mere collection of scary stories about good cheese gone bad.
The coherent whole that results is considered to show the truth more completely than would a mere collection of parts.
She had her own ideas about the project, however, one of them being that it should be a "real teaching book" rather than a mere collection of recipes.
But on the other hand, a genuine _________ name can say things about a product that a mere collection of _________ never could.
Although people may assume the existence of traits in themselves, they do not, in analyzing a specific situation, see themselves as a mere collection of trait names.
From the above conclusions it was decided to move from a mere data collection platform to a full blown crowd and event management application.
"I begin to feel rather dissatisfied with a mere local collection, little is to be learnt by it," a young Alfred Russel Wallace wrote to Henry Bates in 1846.
As such a HIS is far more than a mere 'data collection' tool.
The idea is basically to draft a frame of reference, or master plan of operation, or country programme, to ensure that aid provided by a given organization to a given country is relevant to its needs and opportunities; and to provide structure, strategic vision and coherence to what was so far a mere portfolio (collection) of independent projects.
Mr. Katyal added that the plaintiffs in the case, who work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is operated by the California Institute of Technology under a contract with NASA, may not object to the mere collection of information where its public dissemination is tightly controlled.
