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fallow - use in sentences
Object
- year: Fallowing every 5th year over a 15 year period reduced seed numbers by 75 % .
- land: Drilled a vetch crop then summer fallowed the land.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- leave: Leaving sites fallow will reduce the risk of disease or parasite transmission.
Modifies a noun
- deer: The main herds are of fallow deer which now probably number almost a thousand.
- buck: The two fallow bucks are like that which supports the arms of the County Council in allusion to the name.
- discovery: In addition, 13 previously fallow discoveries have now had plans for development approved.
- period: For many contract overseas workers there is a cycle of good earnings followed by fallow periods.
- land: For a full or bare fallow, heavy land is plowed in April to give the weeds time to start into growth.
- ground: How is the fallow ground to be broken up?
Used with adjective complement
- lie: To the east two hundred places Where a thousand farms lie fallow.
- leave: They are used on land, which would be otherwise be left fallow.
- become: Inland, map says & I see, many small fields with walls, becoming fallow then suburb.
Noun used with modifier
- forest: No room was left for intermediate or temporary forms such as forest fallows.
- rice: Background The spatial distribution of rice fallows in South Asia was documented using a GIS approach.
Modifying Another Word
- previously: In addition, 13 previously fallow discoveries have now had plans for development approved.
- long: In the Twickenham sunshine an England career long fallow showed shoots of recovery.
Preposition: for
- year: Seed numbers in soil are reduced to less than 20 % by fallowing for a year.
- wheat: They summer fallow for wheat, and than take several crops of spring corn, with some clover.
- month: If docks get bad enough intends to bastard fallow, he will plow early and leave fallow for 2 months during the summer.
- time: Below that, there may be little risk in leaving things fallow for a time.
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