major trend
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmajorandtrend
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major
adjective
uk/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/us/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the ...
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trend
noun[C]
uk/trend/us/trend/
a general development or change in a situation or in the way that people ...
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(Definition ofmajorandtrendfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmajor trend
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It was possible that this was becoming amajortrendin the survey.
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Anothermajortrendis the increasing development of computational models and tools to created behaviour-based colonies of agents.
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Amajortrendduring the late 1990s was the increasing use of a smaller number of standardized life quality measures in clinical studies and trials.
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However, themajortrendthat emerged is that farmers' approvals of new varieties tend to decline as the environment gets drier.
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Falling and rising wedges are a small part of intermediate ormajortrend.
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Presently, amajortrend, particularly with respect to scholarly journals, is open access.
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The results show two major trends: first, stress decreases with increasing m in asymptotic curves.
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He also fails (or neglects) to note the major trends in educational provision during this period.
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Let's not lose sight of the major trends.
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In the 1980s, there was amajortrendtoward the elderly maintaining separate households rather than co-residing with the families of adult children.
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The works of this period are divided into three major trends: dialectology, stylistics, and descriptive-functional.
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Onemajortrendinvolved the transition away massed infantry fire and human waves to more refined tactics.
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Very similar seed mass spectra and major trends emerged in the four examples.
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Major trends in the field are examined, including its focus on large-scale practical tasks and on quantitative evaluation of progress, and its willingness to embrace a diverse range of techniques.
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The halakhic writings of the eleventh and twelfth centuries display two major trends which are not necessarily contradictory.
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They certainly illustrate or confirm some of the major trends of the period, even if primarily in relatively traditional areas.
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Two major trends are worth considering.
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This recent book picks up from the 1952 revolution and presents the major trends in art since that time while o^ering possible socio-political explanations for these trends.
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They upheld the continuity of some of its major trends, while at the same time they channeled the growth to move in a somewhat different direction.
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This arrangement makes it difficult to follow individual thinkers but it allows for the explication of major trends.
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