31.   Or, if you want to become a more serious collector, buy uncirculated, or never used, coins from the mint.

32.   Serious collectors already are bombarding dealers with requests to purchase the tickets that will be handed out each day to members of the public viewing the proceedings.

33.   Serious collectors can still pull old California chardonnays labeled pinot chardonnay from their cellars.

34.   Serious collectors may pay even more.

35.   Serious collectors wait seven years just to see a new plant bloom, and Laroche, lacking constancy, is not in their league.

36.   Serious classical collectors might adopt a wait-and-see attitude about the changes.

37.   Serious collectors will appreciate the fact that the first-ever digital baseball cards have an official license from Major League Baseball and are distributed in limited editions.

38.   She said that her art buying began out of need but that she had never considered herself a serious collector.

39.   The gallery owner Paula Cooper, who represents Gober and has championed installation art for decades, can count the number of serious collectors in a single breath.

40.   The Postal Service is trying to promote stamp collecting among people who are not serious collectors with humourous commecials and celebrity subjects.