Example sentences of "over a lifetime " in BNC.

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1 Over a lifetime these two strategies yield almost the same number of offspring but an older male clearly needs the quicker success and he takes the greater risk .
2 To succeed , they have to be able to draw on their full resources , built up over a lifetime .
3 The survey found that 39 per cent of British women are faithful to one partner over a lifetime , while one in 17 men and women under 59 have never had sex .
4 But words , acquired slowly over a lifetime , are part of a different set of perceptions of the world , they have grown with us , they restrict what we see and how we see it .
5 So we realize we 're not gon na be here to change the habits that have built up over a lifetime .
6 The contrasts sound even more spectacular if the changes are expressed in terms of experience over a lifetime .
7 Such poverty compounds the economic and domestic inequalities typically experienced by women over a lifetime and magnifies such inequalities in old age .
8 If it is the impact of government intervention over a lifetime or series of lifetimes that matters , then existing work on the snapshot distribution , however sophisticated , may have little of relevance to offer .
9 Right over , over a lifetime okay if we could sum this , it seems the time is continuous with the integrate , right , over time , we 'll just get the area of that and that curve .
10 It was claimed that Alar posed a cancer threat to 50 people in a million over a lifetime — well over the legal limit .
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