1.   Piles of old books lay on the floor gathering dust.

2.   The best way to stop it completely is to leave it gathering dust in any store that stocks it.

3.   The plans lie gathering dust in some government office.

4.   Many of the machines are gathering dust in basements.

5.   In the home of Hildebrand, gathering dust, lay a long, padded box containing a golden rod entwined with roses.

6.   Meanwhile goods collected by the Worcester Kurdish Refugee Association are gathering dust in a warehouse.

7.   PLANS for one of the most ambitious civil engineering projects envisaged for the North West are to be left gathering dust.