The phrase "to follow the extract" means to read or pay attention to the specific piece of information or content that has been mentioned or provided. Full definition
Team Leader of up to eight staff during upgrade to SAP 4.7 Professional Experience Lorillard Tobacco Company 7/05 — 3/10 Programmer Analyst • Created extracts to send state tax files containing sales information to several states o Followed extracts from coding through integration... (members.climber.com)
To conclude these writings on the Future of Man we quote the following extract from a work to be published at a later date, Mon Univers. (religion-online.org)
I was struck by the following extract from your Magazine's recent editorial (Nov - Dec» 07) concerning the failure of secular humanism which «seeks to exclude God from public policy as an irrelevance, an interference in humanity's autonomous self - development without any vision of meaning and value... The truth is that for all its noisy propaganda atheistic humanism has nothing positive to offer humanity. (faith.org.uk)