Sentence examples for collection for decades from inspiring English sources

I've been building up an antiquarian book collection for decades.

A great clock can stay in one collection for decades, never published or exhibited.

"The rearing barosaurus, one of the largest dinosaur skeletons known to science, was in our collection for decades," Dr. Novacek said.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is voluntarily returning 19 artifacts to Egypt that had been in its collection for decades and that Met curators recently determined came from Tutankhamen's tomb, the museum said on Tuesday.

The selection of Cuban art is particularly strong; it includes works by the vanguardistas Mario Carreño and Cundo Bermúdez (hidden away in a private collection for decades), as well as a tropical idyll by Tomás Sánchez.

WASHINGTON — The National Archives on Thursday showed off a newly recovered letter written by Abraham Lincoln, welcoming back a document that had apparently been missing from a government collection for decades.

Many of these objects have been secreted in private collections for decades, and the standing mobile (or stabile) "Tree" hasn't been shown in its complete state since the artist's 1943 MOMA retrospective.

The Tuck collection has for decades been in and out of storage at the university.

His daughter, Francine Meyer, preserved and expanded his collection for two decades.

Beyond that, not much is known about the creation of this painting, which has been in a private collection for four decades and will go on public view this week for the first time in years, at an exhibition of Angeli's photographs here at the Museum of the Imperial Forums.

NEWARK — It is difficult to say which is more surprising: that the Newark Public Library owns prints by Picasso and Rauschenberg, a page of the Gutenberg Bible and a 1493 printed tome known as the Nuremberg Chronicle, or that William J. Dane, a dapper, refreshingly irreverent art scholar from New Hampshire, has been tending to this astounding collection for six decades.