31.   The goal of these partnerships is to improve communication between the departments, make sure probationers stay clean, and keep arrest warrants from gathering dust.

32.   While past chancellors mounted similar efforts, their curriculum frameworks generally wound up gathering dust on shelves.

33.   Plans for fiber optics and pipelines are gathering dust.

34.   Assembled by a Hungarian eccentric at the beginning of the century, the display was recently recovered from a basement where it had been gathering dust for three decades.

35.   Dozens of Toyota vans that arms experts would speed off in to make surprise inspections are gathering dust at U.N. headquarters in Baghdad.

36.   The monument was stored behind a furniture store in Bridgeport and was gathering dust until police stumbled onto it.

37.   The other has already been gathering dust in home video for years.

38.   The long row of packing equipment is gathering dust at Green Mountain Orchards this autumn.

39.   The photos remain rolled up, gathering dust.

40.   There are instances where expensive privatisation studies done by foreign consultancies are gathering dust on the shelves.