Sentence examples for toll over time from inspiring English sources

That pressure, plus regular wear and tear, takes a toll over time.

In the late 1950s Sakharov became concerned about the consequences of testing in the atmosphere, forseeing an eventual increased global death toll over time.

Followed too far, capitalism leads to corruption and broken communities, drugs lead to addiction and shattered lives, even the ideals of flower power take their toll over time.

Fighting the excruciating pain of rheumatic gout, Collins became addicted to laudanum — drinkable opium — which took its toll over time, so that the phantasms and doppelgängers of his fiction slipped into his actual life.

Left-sidedness may result from a genetic accident or an injury early in development, he said, including the possibility that chemical imbalances during development, which may cause left-handedness, may also cause other problems that take their toll over time.

Disease, over-harvesting and climate changes can take a toll over time.

The long-promised assessment acknowledged that the government itself does not always know how many civilians it kills and that it may revise its death tolls over time.

Not much of a price for a life, some would say, but such difficult feelings can over time take a toll on a person.

One in ten people has insomnia, and if you're one of them, you probably don't need scientific studies to know how much it takes its toll, especially over time.

Since drugs alter existing levels of activity in the brain, that takes a toll on cells over time, exhausting and degrading them.

The association also noted a 20percentt increase in electronic tolling over that time period.