"with time" or "by the time"?
1. The potency of medicine deteriorates with time.
2. The potency of medicine deteriorates by the time.
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I like sentence #2 because it's nice to say :-)
unfortunately it's not about feeling, it's about grammar.
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The first one is grammatically correct.
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#1 is correct, "by the time" is incomplete; by the time (something happens). for example - by the time it reaches the customers.
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With time
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Why don't you try using "eventually"?
e.g. The effect of this medicine will eventually disappear.
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