had collected
- past perfect of collect.
Example Sentences
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By the first quarter of 2026, Axon’s body cameras had collected more than 60 million hours of footage, according to the company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Clippers, said WOW used its stadium-related petitions to target the roughly 13,000 signatures his group had collected.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Ford said his volunteer group, which collects rubbish weekly in the Pontypool area, had collected almost 14,000 bags of litter since 2018 - including more than 650 since the start of this year.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
By July 2025, researchers had collected about 500 pieces.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2026
Every day the number of food bags increased, and by the end of the second week in December we had collected forty-one bags.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
