tocollectinformationaboutpeople,products,companies, etc. from theinternetusing asearchengine(= aprogramthatsearchesforparticularwords indocumentsonwebsites):
Incomputerjargon,searchenginesuseroboticspiders-specialsoftwareprograms- thatcrawlcontinuouslyalong themyriadtrailsof theWorldWideWeb, harvestingdocumentsas they go.
ENVIRONMENT
tocollectanaturalresourceinorderto use iteffectively:
Harvestingrainwateroffersmanyadvantages: itconservesmunicipaland wellwaterand it isfree.
They were harvested a year before the experiments took place.
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Unlike the routine for the main trapping grid, these traps remained untended for three consecutive days before flies were harvested.
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Thirteen chapters cover taxonomy and distribution, production volumes, ecology and agronomy, harvesting, processing, economics and marketing.
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We use these series to predictharvest-time prices of each crop for the month in which theharvestwas reported to have taken place.
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It is sufficiently fast and accurate to be used by seed producers for establishing an optimalharvesttime to obtain high-quality seed lots.
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The total number of plants and ears were counted in each plot at the time ofharvest.
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Immediately prior toharvest, a 3 m2 area was dug from each sub-plot and the plants counted and topped by hand.
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The same rates of fertilizer were used at planting and afterharvestfor both cropping cycles.
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The effect might not appear very strong because of the scale used in theharvestseries.
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The lowest maize yield harvested in 1996/97 under sole maize was attributed to leaching and water logging due to excessive rainfall and lodging.
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Moreover, mature trees ready forharvestmay be grown for historical, socioeconomic, and geographical reasons, rather than due to the management effort.
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This is mainly because renewable assets such as biological resources grow over a length of time before they mature and become ready for harvesting.
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Swathed forages were sampled near the time they were swathed or harvested.
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The long harvests, moreover, encroached on the time available for between-crop repairs and maintenance.
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When a household has earned enough money on, for example, the apricotharvest, there is no need to sell last summer's lambs.
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Collocationswithharvest
harvest
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abundant harvest
He failed to reap theabundantharvestoffered by the manifold variety of actual life, and thus deprived the economic historian of indispensable material.
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annual harvest
A concessionaire who is effectively (though not necessarily legally) free to chooseannualharvestarea thus might not be equally free to chooseannualharvestvolume.
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bountiful harvest
We had a report that it was abountifulharvest.
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