The phrase "assistance were collected" is not correct in standard written English.
It should be "assistance was collected" to agree in number with the singular noun "assistance."
Example: "The assistance was collected from various sources to support the project."
Alternatives: "help was gathered" or "aid was obtained."
Data regarding gestation, delivery, postnatal course, mortality, length of hospitalisation, and duration of ventilatory assistance were collected for infants assisted between May and December 2006, before the project began, and between May and December 2008, two years afterwards.
Information concerning sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors, cardiovascular history and risk factors, patient's attribution of symptoms, clinical and proximal factors, and time of admission, symptom onset and call for assistance was collected using medical records and semi-structured interviews 2.6 ± 1.5 days after hospital admission.
Finally, experiences and impressions with backup assistance systems were collected in several studies from drivers who had these systems on their own vehicles.
By August 18, over $24 million 20055 USD) in individual assistance funds were collected for victims of Hurricane Dennis.
With the assistance of the pupils, crabs were collected from the neighbouring streams in each of the villages using fishing baskets tufted with palm nuts and cassava.
Foreign consultants to the World Bank who oversaw the research into which towns qualified for assistance say most of the data were collected by local officials who work for the same hard-line politicians the West is trying to marginalize.
Scanning electron microscopy images were collected with the assistance of Todd Simpson, Western Nanofabrication Laboratory, Western University.
Digital optical microscopy images with the Leica LAS-X were collected with the assistance of the Wren Research Group, Department of chemistry, Western University.
At the end of the experiment, soil samples were collected with the assistance of a probe-type 50 mm PVC auger, at the 0 20 cm soil layer, air-dried, and sieved in a 2 mm sieve.
Tissues were collected with the assistance of Kaltin Ferguson.
Permission to access patient files was obtained, and data were collected with the assistance of staff working in the patient records department.
