disturbing trend

collocation in English

meaningsofdisturbingandtrend

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disturbing
adjective
uk
/dɪˈstɜː.bɪŋ/us
/dɪˈstɝː.bɪŋ/
making you feel worried ...
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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 ofdisturbingandtrendfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I have noticed adisturbingtrendamong medical staff at the "clinical coal-face" of cancer care.
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This is adisturbingtrendin liberal democratic societies, as it weakens parliamentary and public sector accountability.
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Anotherdisturbingtrendis an increasing tendency for development spending to be in the form of 'monuments', although this is not a phenomenon that can be easily quantified.
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And a glaring anddisturbingtrendwas the ease with which the groups quickly converted the finance meant for fieldwork to personal use.
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There is adisturbingtrendin the figures for new wagons.
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I agree that this is adisturbingtrend.
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The mostdisturbingtrendwas in offences involving violence.
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There is a somewhatdisturbingtrendon the locomotive side.
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Let me give three examples of thisdisturbingtrend.
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There is adisturbingtrend—many teachers have mentioned it.
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I have to point out adisturbingtrend.
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There is adisturbingtrendfor local authorities to discharge young people from care early.
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This analysis indicates adisturbingtrendwhich is fraught with danger.
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All this indicates, by its sheer scale, adisturbingtrend.
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This is adisturbingtrendin a service which depends greatly on medical manpower.
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Does he agree that that is adisturbingtrend?
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If we look at 1970 more closely we see a yet moredisturbingtrendbetween the first and second half years.
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It is a mostdisturbingtrend.
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