Example sentences of "[adv] over time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In traditional parchment/paper document creation standards of information provision and format arose naturally over time . |
| 2 | And with currency fluctuations , salaries with appear attractive initially can become decreasingly so over time . |
| 3 | One of the few women who had done so over time without the complement of sexual gratification . |
| 4 | The latter 's research suggests that patients receiving clozapine may well cost services less over time by producing more positive clinical outcomes . |
| 5 | We have to recognize , however , that what appears as typical will change greatly over time . |
| 6 | The meaning of the term ‘ law ’ in science has changed greatly over time ; and during the Age of Science it was a term of great importance . |
| 7 | Why does the measured unemployment rate vary so greatly over time ? |
| 8 | It supports the principle of increasing energy prices so that consumers pay the full environmental cost of the resources they use , although it acknowledges that increases would have to be phased in over time , preferably in line with international agreements . |
| 9 | Outstanding incompatibilities not resolved by the ABI — and there is little doubt that different look and feels will still prevail — are to be addressed by a streamlined porting environment that can be whittled down over time as more features are incorporated into the ABI . |
| 10 | Evolution as a ladder of progression , where the tiny and simple aggregate together over time to become the large and complex . |
| 11 | The ego ideal is replaced in hypnosis by the primal father , in the primal horde and all groups in which these emotions are used for keeping it together over time . |
| 12 | But , due to the factors that we 've mentioned , alright , the supply will ex will expand progressively over time , right , so our long run supply curve alright , will become a lot more elastic than the short run supply curve , right , so if you think of our elasticity formula , I over changing quantity over changing price , times price over quantity , right , as we go through time our original , our original prices and quantities are going to stay the same , right , P one , Q one , that 's not going to change through time , right . |
| 13 | The main objective of the project is to improve our understanding of the processes by which dominant firms achieve and maintain dominance in their markets and industries ; to explore the determinants of profitability of these firms ( especially the role of investment in R&D ) , particularly where they are apparently able to earn high profits persistently over time ; to evaluate their dynamic efficiency in terms of new products , improved quality and cost-reducing new technology ; and to inform and strengthen the policy analysis of dominant firms . |
| 14 | Thus over time , and at a variety of scales , cultures were mixed and accommodations were reached ( often between groups with unequal power ) , producing hybrid forms . |
| 15 | But the County Council still has some longer term debt , not external but internally , that is being paid now and not over time , and so the position actually will not change , so long as the Council continues to have more credit approval than it requires to use the new borrowing . |
| 16 | The tendency to centralise power over time is frankly admitted by the Commission , albeit diplomatically : ‘ the list of policies which qualify on the grounds of being more efficiently discharged at Community level than at national level is likely to evolve gradually over time . |
| 17 | Under such circumstances the frequency with which you visited the pub would be likely to decrease gradually over time . |
| 18 | The picture which emerges from research , from that of Dorothy Wedderburn in the 1960s to that of Sara Arber and her colleagues in the 1980s , on the relationship between pensioners and younger relatives , friends and neighbours , is not one of simple dependency of the old upon the young , but of an exchange relationship to which both sides contribute which shifts only gradually over time towards the younger participants being the predominant givers ( Cole and Utting , 1962 ; Gilbert et al. , 1989 ; Evandrou et al. , 1986 ) providing a significant volume of services which would otherwise be a costly burden on the state . |
| 19 | Often cited in this context is the fact that young boys , far more often than girls , play with Lego and other constructional toys , thus building up their spatial concepts and skills gradually over time . |
| 20 | It may change gradually over time , as indeed may the level of damages generally . |
| 21 | We can look at these and easily see not only an increase nationally over time but also big differences between local authorities . |
| 22 | Moreover , each of these characteristics tends to change rather rapidly over time , as the monetary authorities try to establish controls that are more or less effective . |
| 23 | Walberg , Hose and Raster ( 1978 ) showed the significant relationship between LOR and proficiency in English with Japanese children in the USA , but also point out that the rate of learning slows down very quickly over time , so that in the first two months the child learns as much as he will in the next five months , the next year and so on . |
| 24 | Likewise , tables of the age distribution in certain selected parishes in early-modern England tell us nothing about how structured dependence has altered qualitatively over time . |
| 25 | Halsey ( 1986 ) suggested that the steady fall in Labour 's percentage share of the vote from 1964 to 1983 was attributable not primarily to people of a given social class voting differently over time , but to a straightforward decline in the working-class population , which affected many parliamentary constituencies : ‘ The dominant class had grown from 18 per cent of the electorate in 1964 to 29 per cent in 1983 while the working-class proportion had dropped from 47 to 31 per cent ’ ( Halsey , 1986 , 88 ) . |
| 26 | The means by which this is done is through the ‘ schemes of experience ’ , such as typifications , recipes , and other idealizations which members build up over time and into which are allotted new experiences and encounters , rendering the unknown into the known , the unfamiliar into the familiar . |
| 27 | When you have to build things up over time , that 's a definite plus . ’ |
| 28 | Every person or animal that follows the path seems to leave a trail of energy , and these energy paths build up over time . |
| 29 | Responding to Mrs Thatcher 's initiative is one way in which radicals build up over time an alternative election programme . |
| 30 | The complex adaptation of the organism to its physical and organic environment was built up over time through the constant application of pressures that are never stable . |