Example sentences of "over time and [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The elderly partners may have varying degrees of disability and , at any one time , the more able may be the primary carer , but this may shift over time and with variation in the physical health of each partner .
2 Of course it is difficult to generalise over time and between parties with respect to the relations between party and Prime Minister , but in the recent past it has become clear that the Labour Party outside Parliament has been concerned to exert a greater measure of effective control over Labour Prime Ministers .
3 Changes in the relationship between health and wealth occur over time and between regions , along with economic , political and cultural development .
4 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 .
5 It will be the teacher 's judgement , made over time and through observing performance in different tasks , whether pupils can be said to have attained the abilities identified in a Statement of Attainment .
6 Finally and most significantly the closing sentence of the extract is well worth repeating : " It will be the teacher 's judgement , made over time and through observing performance in different tasks , whether pupils can be said to have attained . "
7 However , it remains possible that people do see the support which they give to elderly relatives as part of a two-way pattern which stretches over time and across generations , and where they themselves will benefit ultimately from the support of someone in a younger generation .
8 However , the criminal law is not fixed and static , it varies over time and from area to area .
9 But universality would be surprising because not only the context of emergence but also that of the dissemination and use of knowledge varies over time and from social location to social location .
10 While pressure-group influence varies over time and from issue to issue , such groupings must now be seen as an integral part of local public administration .
11 Perhaps local politics needs to be seen as a series of shifting alliances , varying over time and from issue to issue .
12 The fourth part describes variation in English , over time and from place to place .
13 In spite of the fact that enquiry statistics appear consistent over time and in different areas , he has been unable to find consistency in definition and recording of enquiries when he visited bureaux .
14 Documentary sources vary widely over time and in quality .
15 We would then be able to do what Conservatives should have done from the outset — pick up and operate a tried and trusted system and concentrate on dealing over time and in proper order with imperfections that had developed .
16 Initial research has shown substantial variation in the mean heights of the British population over time and in cross-section — for example between different social classes and different areas of the country and this variation is described and explained .
17 Dynamics of survival within the NMGC must be related to the role which the organisation has defined and redefined for itself in the light of a changing understanding of marital problems over time and in relation to the work of other agencies .
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