over time
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Prepositional phrase
- From a historic or evolutionary perspective.
- "This graph shows the population of California over time."
- Occuring gradually, as the time passes.
- 2003, Stephen A. Mitchell, Can Love Last?: The Fate of Romance over Time, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 55:
- There are surely relationships in which romantic passion dies over time; the price of abandoning them is often less than the price of endless years spent in resuscitation efforts.
- 2008, Can Attachment Explain Individual Differences in Cognitive Functioning Over Time?: Results from a 12-year Cohort-sequential Study, ProQuest, →ISBN, page 26:
- It also appears that the older with less education score initially better than the young with higher education, but over time, the young appear to surpass them.
Synonyms
- into time (dated)
Translations
with respect to the passage of time
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gradually, as time passes
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