Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] over time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore it was supposed that payments practices , and other institutional arrangements which change only slowly over time , have more influence on the velocity of circulation than any temporary changes in M. Before the First World War there may have been a good deal of truth in this assumption because the financial system was relatively unsophisticated and financial innovation was taking place very slowly by today 's standards . |
| 2 | Since real output could also change only slowly over time in response to changes in aggregate demand , it followed that the rate of monetary growth would in the long run be correlated with the rate of inflation . |
| 3 | Thus , we have : For two main reasons , economists are usually quite happy to work with ‘ gross ’ rather than ‘ net ’ figures : first , depreciation tends to change only slowly over time so that the ‘ gross ’ and ‘ net ’ figures move closely together over any period of a few years ; and secondly , depreciation figures are notoriously difficult to estimate with any accuracy . |
| 4 | Why does the measured unemployment rate vary so greatly over time ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Field social workers visit children and young people in care less frequently over time and then only briefly ( Millham et al. , |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And with currency fluctuations , salaries with appear attractive initially can become decreasingly so over time . |
| 9 | So we involve ourselves in businesses that perform consistently well over time . |
| 10 | We observed in section 2.3.2 that long-run historical evidence that velocity was stable , tending to rise only very slowly over time , had led some economists to argue that there was thus a close causal connection between changes in the stock of money and the level of aggregate demand . |
| 11 | 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 . |