bumper crop

collocation in English

meaningsofbumperandcrop

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bumper
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈbʌm.pər/us
/ˈbʌm.pɚ/
larger in amount ...
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crop
noun
uk
/krɒp/us
/krɑːp/
(the total amount collected of) a plant such as a grain, fruit, or vegetable grown in ...
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(Definition ofbumperandcropfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Clearly, rains did not intend to produce abumpercropfor the farmer's benefit.
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Sometimes you get abumpercropand the whole market is flooded, and sometimes you get disease and then there is a shortage.
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True they had abumpercropthis year of 200,000 tons above last year.
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Preliminary reports suggest a lower harvest than last year'sbumpercrop, but with major shortfalls restricted to a few areas.
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He told us that last year we had abumpercrop.
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When you are dealing with any vegetable crop you are constantly against the problem of either having a possible shortage or a possiblebumpercrop.
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I gather that there has been abumpercropof watercress.
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Last year we had abumpercrop.
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So why, with last year'sbumpercrop, is the opposite not occurring?
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A crop of seeds is generally produced every year with abumpercropoften occurring every second year.
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The bottom's pumpkin field'sbumpercropwas washed away.
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This year the farmers are expecting abumpercropand output of more than 4560% higher than last year.
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The business succeeded until abumpercropin 1903 proved too much to store.
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Abumpercrop, such as never seen before, came up in the parched land.
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Local farmers were confident of abumpercropafter experiencing favourable conditions for the year.
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Plentiful rain in late 1995 provided for abumpercropin 1996.
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They cheerfully go to their rice-fields to harvest thebumpercropthe fruit of many months of hard work.
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One compassionate farmer donated them a piece of land and another farmer helped them cultivate it, yielding abumpercrop.
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This caused great harm to the industry and farmers, already suffering from low prices due to the 2008bumpercropand the deepening economic crisis.
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Stand-alone comics such as the also turned heads, and a large recruitment effort brought abumpercrop of new artists - making projects such as 22.2's full-page illustration possible.
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