The couple began collecting quilts in 1979, and gradually amassed more than 1,000 pieces from all over the world, dating from the late 1700's through the present.
Instead, the online version is a labor of love by Andrew Stafford, 48, a San Francisco bookseller who gradually amassed a set of the magazines during the 1990's.
I won more agates and marbles than anyone in school, and gradually amassed hundreds of soldiers; finally leaving them to clutter up unreachable shelves.
Instead, they set their sights on what Jean has called "postage-stamp Renaissance scribbles," gradually amassing a large and important collection of Italian drawings from the 15th to the 17th centuries.
After his wife is killed, and fanatically attached to the principle of justice, Kolhaas takes up arms and gradually amasses a rebel army that threatens the state; only then are his grievances addressed.
Mr. Gessen, 33, boyishly handsome and possessing the self-assurance of a writer twice his age, has never had an easy relationship with literary fame, even as he has gradually amassed it.
And with a conciergelike thoroughness, he gradually amassed a houseful of high-impact theater scores, written to his own librettos and usually staged under his own direction -- not in opera houses but in Broadway theaters, where they played like musicals, for long runs and with ample receipts at the box office.
His mother has gradually amassed one of Hong Kong's largest privately held real estate portfolios.
As the iOS platform has gradually amassed more than 365 million units in cumulative device sales, it has created a rising tide for all mobile app developers, who have seen increasing monthly revenue run-rates with each year.
