Collocations withtrend
These are words often used in combination withtrend.
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adverse trend
This year the situation has been made doubly difficult by the adverse trend of world markets.
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alarming trend
This has given way to continuous cropping, an alarming trend with an obvious threat to sustainability2.
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broad trend
However, numerous other examples exist of a broad trend towards the legitimization of learning from precedents and the emergence of a contextual sensibility.
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continuing trend
What will be attempted is to examine more carefully the underlying assumptions and consequences of the long-term and continuing trend that is creating more and more partial patients.
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cultural trend
One important cultural trend in the 1950s, however, was precisely the rapid rise of more populist large-circulation weekly news magazines (shukanshi).
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current trend
Nevertheless, the current trend is increasingly to account for precise effects even in large-scale simulations.
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dangerous trend
We are anxious, and we want action to reverse this dangerous trend.
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definite trend
The error between theory and experiment shown in figure 6 shows no definite trend.
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demographic trend
According to the rapporteur, this will help to tackle the falling demographic trend.
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developmental trend
The gyrodactylids display the extreme condition of this developmental trend, viviparity.
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disturbing trend
I have noticed a disturbing trend among medical staff at the "clinical coal-face" of cancer care.
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dominant trend
The dominant trend in the theory of well-being is towards subjective theories.
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downward trend
The downward trend is perplexing, as it lacks a theoretical basis.
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emerging trend
Furthermore, an emerging trend suggests that the private sector may provide the engine for diversifying the economy and reducing the dependence on agriculture.
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encouraging trend
This can only be an encouraging trend in a technological age.
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evolutionary trend
To what extent this evolutionary trend toward eye reduction could have been reversible is unknown.
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general trend
Moreover, the cross-national similarity goes beyond the general trend towards increased deprivation.
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growing trend
There is a growing trend to use electronic dictionaries to construct large linguistic knowledge bases.
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historical trend
This is especially true in the light of the historical trend toward increased female labor-market participation, distinctive of the advanced countries during the twentieth century.
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linear trend
There was no linear trend in rates among 25-34 and o55 year-old females.
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long-run trend
The long-run trend to retire early from the labour market is clearly visible in many countries.
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long-term trend
For the region as a whole, the era brought large fluctuations, but no long-term trend.
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longer-term trend
It attempts to deal with a much longer-term trend in our society.
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major trend
It was possible that this was becoming a major trend in the survey.
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observed trend
Thus, seed mortality resulting from desiccation provides a potential explanation for the observed trend of an increasing spread of germination times with increasing t50.
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overall trend
Although this is a strong overall trend, it conceals some variability within the group.
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positive trend
Of the infant behaviors, only activity correlated with anxious0depressed behavior as a positive trend.
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present trend
The present trend could be reversed for a number of reasons.
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prevailing trend
Especially fascinating would be to see whether differences of articulation correspond at all to the prevailing trend towards ever more sustained legato playing.
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recent trend
The first is consistent with one recent trend in ideological analyses of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century literature.
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rising trend
Ordinance show a rising trend, most marked from 1927.
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secular trend
Secular trend - the outcome may be increasing or decreasing with time.
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similar trend
A similar trend occurs for finite film thicknesses (figure 9a).
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steady trend
Perhaps the need is for a steady trend in a given direction, or a discontinuity, or an interaction.
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temporal trend
A temporal trend is also a major concern in these studies, which suggest that the probability of remarriage declined rapidly with age.
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underlying trend
The second underlying trend is industrial.
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upward trend
Each price series exhibited an upward trend over the period and distinct seasonal patterns.
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warming trend
They do, however, refrain from attributing the warming trend observed during the twentieth century to increasing greenhouse gases.
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worldwide trend
The vast worldwide trend towards concentration of incomes and wealth since the 1990s is the playing out of a neoliberal script.
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worrying trend
Second, the pretentiousness of the chapter is a worrying trend for ' development studies ', if this is an emerging field within it.
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