over time

See also: overtime, and over-time

English

Prepositional phrase

over time

1. From a historic or evolutionary perspective.

   "This graph shows the population of California over time."

2. 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

• Danish: over tid
• Finnish: ajan saatossa
• French: avec le temps
• Hungarian: az idő függvényében
• Italian: col tempo, con l'andare del tempo
• Japanese: やがて (ja) (yagate)
• Swedish: med tiden (sv)

gradually, as time passes

• Danish: efterhånden, med tiden
• Finnish: ajan saatossa, ajan mittaan
• French: avec le temps
• Hungarian: idővel (hu), az idők során
• Polish: z biegiem czasu
• Portuguese: com o tempo, com o passar do tempo
• Russian: со вре́менем (ru) (so vrémenem)