Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun pl] over time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to engage in comparisons over time we were faced with a dilemma stemming from the change in the range of newspapers over this period . |
| 2 | The research programme is the first study of support networks of the elderly looking at developments over time . |
| 3 | When looking at changes over time ( or making comparisons between areas ) one way of overcoming differences in overall population structure is via the calculation of age and sex specific mortality rates . |
| 4 | However , even when legal principles are committed to one constitutional document , set out in legal codes or reiterated by judges over time , they tend to remain highly ambiguous and not worth the paper they are printed on until somebody — the judiciary — interprets and defers to them in their judgments , and somebody else — the executive — enforces those judgments . |
| 5 | On the developmental road towards kingdom-states , alliance networks changed with events over time ; the role of exchange in the making and breaking of such alliances can not be ignored and we should be wary of hastening true commercialisation into Anglo-Saxon England too early , even though that was the inevitable result of this society 's structure . |