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Jones listened to hundreds of songs to decide which nine should go on the album, and employed a dream team of musicians and songwriters that he had been assembling over the years.

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2024

The 10-year-old Dutch bike maker, headquartered in Nunspeet, about 50 miles east of Amsterdam, had been assembling about 600 e-bikes a day prior to the coronavirus pandemic.

From The Verge • Mar. 31, 2020

For a year he had been assembling a file on Express Scripts, a pharmacy-benefits manager with $100 billion in revenue.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2017

Prominent collector Marcia Weisman had been assembling a contemporary art collection there on a shoestring budget.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2015

What if, meanwhile, the ally of France in the peninsula, Tippoo Saib, had been assembling transports with the secrecy observed at Toulon and the other ports whence the divisions had sailed?

From Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)