The phrase "gather background" is grammatically correct and usable in written English.
It means to collect information or facts about a specific topic or situation. Example: "Before making a decision, it is important to gather background information on the company's financial history and current market trends."
Local journalists were also invited as a means to gather background information on pressing issues.
They modelled their work on Loftus's, sending questionnaires to each of their participant's parents to gather background information.
The evaluator will meet with the parent and child together for a short period to gather background information.
Mr Ellison also discovered the Met had planted "a spy in Lawrence family camp" to gather background information about Stephen's parents.
Before the term began, he went to the Mathematics Library at 12 Hillhouse Ave. to gather background on the history of abstract algebraists at Yale for his opening lecture.
In order to gather background noise signals, the car was driving at a speed of 110 km/h on a paved road.
As Principal Investigator of the Honolulu Heart Program, he contacted men who had fought in WWII in the famed 442nd Battalion, and gathered background information from each man.
A structured survey of 75 TAP households gathered background quantitative data.
A semi-structured household survey gathered background quantitative data of 75 migrating households.
Gathering background observations over long-term sequences has the advantage that lighting variation can be included in the background training set.
McCay said that he gathered background details on the Lusitania from Hearst's Berlin correspondent August F. Beach, who was in London at the time of the disaster and was the first newsman at the scene.
