The phrase "able to collect some" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capability or capacity to gather a certain amount of something, often in a context where collection is relevant.
Example: "The researchers were able to collect some data from the participants during the study."
Alternatives: "capable of gathering some" or "able to gather a portion".
Mohammed Idriss lived on the western side of Tula Toli, which borders an area thick with trees and he was able to collect some things before leaving.
After high-level negotiations with the State Department that even brought a phone call from the secretary of state, Colin L. Powell, the city was finally able to collect some of this debt.
However, after a healthy stock of the bees was found in Sweden, conservationists were able to collect some to seed a new UK colony.
But when I was laid off just a month before I turned 65, it became a double-edged sword because I was able to collect some unemployment.
In several contests, in states such as Maine and Nevada, Mr Paul was able to collect some delegates and sometimes a significant portion of the popular vote.
The 13-country EUSO collaboration was able to collect some data, in part because after the leak the researchers changed their strategy to optimize what time they had left.
The power-harvesting concept must be able to collect power of some μW in the long term.
Because of a controversial policy within the Department of Education, student loan companies have been able to collect 9.5percentt interest on some loans, paid mostly by the government, at a time when students pay less than 3.5percentt.
If only I had been able to collect three percent interest for some of those transactions I'd be retired.
All participants were asked whether they were able to collect all urine or whether some fraction had been inadvertently discarded.
The patchy nature and small size of many E. glaucus populations, however, restricted the area within which we were able to collect leaf material, and in some cases we modified transect sampling to collect in a smaller radius while maintaining the separation of sampled plants.
