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But hundreds have made the trip this summer – sometimes 25 a day — drawn by the mystique of the Lambrecht Collection, the 500 used and new cars and trucks the local Chevy dealer collected for decades but refused to sell.

In 1932, as the Nazis rose to power in Germany, a Jewish librarian in Frankfurt published a catalog of 15,000 books he had painstakingly collected for decades.

Shelves and walls are now filled with Nolen's African textiles and pottery, things she has lovingly collected for decades.

We estimate that by the end of 2013, New Jersey phone customers paid about $15 billion for these upgrades -- as the excess monies have been collected for decades and is built into rates and in the profits of services, like Call Waiting.

Mrs. Elson has been collecting for decades, ever since she was entranced by a glass object she happened upon in London in the 1970's.

WHEN Mac Premo moved to a smaller Brooklyn art studio in March, he didn't have room for the yellowed baseball cards, old telephones, floppy disks and other ephemera he had been collecting for decades.

Though mainstream museums and galleries have been slow to appreciate work by African-Americans, the black community has been collecting for decades.

The foreign automakers can also get a younger workforce, one that isn't constantly generating retirees with generous benefits that they collect for decades (as is the case for the Big Three).

The exhibit shows that the historical society, founded in 1856, has been collecting for decades.

Georgius Everhardus Rumphius's life work — he traveled and collected for five decades — is a botanical treasure trove of Indonesian plants.

David A. Whiman, a retired rabbi in New York who collected for three decades, has consigned to the sale gilded lion synagogue ornaments attributed to woodcarvers who specialized in carousel animals.