Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [verb] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the courts were clearly subservient to the commands of the Communist Party , although it should be noted that the degree of independence available to the courts has varied over time : in the 1930s it was minimal , but after 1956 it became greater . |
| 2 | Nonetheless the composition of households does change over time , perhaps rather more than much recent research has acknowledged . |
| 3 | They measured price changes over periods of one week , one day , five minutes and one minute , and concluded that the relationship between spot and futures prices has varied over time . |
| 4 | The volume of the ocean basins has fluctuated over time and this has a great influence over virtually every other life-generating and sustaining force ever discovered . |
| 5 | Literary history will be discussed in greater detail below , but , briefly stated , a historical view of literature follows inevitably from the recognition of the fact that the perceptibility of given literary conventions or devices tends to decrease over time . |
| 6 | The relative balance of these factors has changed over time and is influenced by the type of exchange rate system in operation . |
| 7 | It follows first that there can be no measured change in productivity , irrespective of whether government productivity grows in practice , and secondly that the relative price of government services tends to rise over time . |
| 8 | Some of the more recent studies , which have been able to use a longer data set , have found evidence that the absolute size of mispricings has declined over time . |