With time, that tends to happen.

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I suppose that I've already written too many times to repeat yet again that I tend to repeat myself in these pages. At least this time I won't submit the links to prove it. Yet it's hard not to take notice of the fact that the phrase "Over the years" seems to be a front runner for the most repeated opening phrase. I suppose that I was aware that I use the phrase often (and perhaps it's hard not to with increased frequency as times passes and the history upon which I can reflect continues to grow). But sometimes repetitions make themselves particularly apparent - which is what happened this time. As I was about to link to a previous column that dealt with a rather similar topic as this column, I couldn't help noting that I started that column as well with "Over the years". So ...

Over the years I've written "over the years" more times that is perhaps desirable. I count about twenty times at the start of a sentence, and quite a few more somewhere inside a sentence. It sort of creates the impression that the internet has been with us for generations already.

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