Example sentences of "increase [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 Because he wants the entropy to increase with time , the obvious conclusion would be that the wrong definition of entropy has been chosen and that it should be changed , but he decides instead to change the law of time evolution .
2 Thus disorder will tend to increase with time if the system obeys an initial condition of high order .
3 Although the value of the market index will tend to increase over time , this will not cause the size and variance of this measure to rise .
4 On the assumption that nothing happens to change the relative attractiveness of different methods of borrowing , then we would expect the stock of bills to increase over time .
5 And because the basis tends to zero as the delivery date of the futures contract approaches , it also requires the futures price to increase over time .
6 Concentration of crystals increases with time while some sedimentation from the suspension occurs on the floor .
7 Some sedimentation occurs at the chamber floor but crystal concentration increases with time .
8 It states that the total amount of disorder in the universe ( which is measured by a quantity called entropy ) always increases with time .
9 The famous second law of thermodynamics says that entropy always increases with time .
10 This says that in any closed system disorder , or entropy , always increases with time .
11 Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases .
12 This makes it quite clear how the gap between apparent and real earnings increases with time .
13 This alkali can contribute to acid neutralisation and the intraoesophageal pH increases with time in response to acid even in the absence of salivary secretion .
14 Using mean seed weight , which increases with time , as a parameter , it was found that the dry site would take about 150 years to revert to the conditions obtaining in the original forest , whereas in the wet forest , the figure of 1000 years was obtained once again .
15 However , increases from time to time are unavoidable .
16 When applied to British fertility trends , the correlation ( elasticity ) between fertility and women 's real wages increases over time because of the rise of the real wages of women and their increasing tendency to work .
17 The ratio of saving to aggregate income changes for several reasons ; the level of aggregate demand generally increases over time , again for reasons other than the volume and cost of financial transactions .
18 Otto Werner , formerly of the Bundesanstalt fur Materialprüfung , Berlin , published analyses in 1970 which showed that in very general terms the amount of zinc in the brass increased with time until it reached a natural maximum of about 28 per cent .
19 The rate of complete clearance increased with time in all groups of patients .
20 The total area of gastric erosions and concentration of lipif peroxidesin the gastric mucosa increased with time after administration of indomethacin ( 20 mg/kg orally ) .
21 Gastric haemorrhagic erosions increased with time after administration of indomethacin .
22 In retrospect , what I found fascinating at the time ( and this feeling has only increased with time and further thought ) was that all the crew just did what I would have told them had I been able to make contact with them .
23 My interest in China was increased from time to time by my acquaintance with a Cantonese who operated a shoe repair shop on the High Street .
24 However , the weights may soon become out-of-date : in particular , the Laspeyres index will tend to give too much weight to those goods whose relative prices have increased over time since increases in relative prices are usually associated with decreases in quantity demanded .
25 Also , the Paasche index tends to give too little weight to those goods whose relative prices have increased over time .
26 How quickly the speed is increasing as time goes on .
27 The rate is increasing with time ( 1 in 900 in the UK in 1903 against 1 in 400 in 1973 ) ; but this may be an artefact of more accurate recording of the cause of death — before the arrival of modern terminal care , people usually died of pneumonia .
28 However , Hakim ( 1982 ) re-analysed the data and found that ‘ the results … confirm the association between crime and unemployment , and suggest it has been increasing over time ’ ( p.453 ) .
29 In other words , the demands on the state in its capacity as the focus of the system 's legitimacy were increasing over time .
30 These estimates assume no significant ‘ spontaneous ’ decrease or increase with time and no significant regional differences in the birth prevalence of congenital abnormalities .
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