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bucked...trend
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Unemployment in the area has bucked the trend by falling over the last month.
downward trend
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Share prices continued their downward trend .
reverse a trend
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Immigration has increased sharply and reversing this trend will be extremely difficult.
set the pattern/trend (= do something in a way that is later repeated )
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That first day seemed to set the pattern for the following weeks.
upward trend/movement
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an upward trend in sales
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a sharp upward movement in property prices
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■ ADJECTIVE
broad
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These papers dealt with discrete groupings of glasses, which reflected specific aspects of ancient glass technology, and considered broader trends .
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This review of the urban disturbances is important as it places the cities and the urban labour forces in broader economic trends .
clear
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Conclusions: There is a fairly clear trend in all bands, apart from the oldest plants.
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Not a great difference, but a clear trend .
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The investigations revealed that there were, in fact, no clear trends .
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However, it is clear that the trend is for water supply schemes to be financially self-supporting in the future.
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There are a few clear trends , however.
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That record also shows clear long-term trends , as well as fluctuations in rainfall and temperature.
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Fifth, the study showed a clear trend towards facilities management.
current
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Not much on contemporary art but a sprinkling of the new art history proves that publishers are aware of current trends .
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Who knows, his storytelling skills may even have something to do with the current pop culture trends .
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The range now offers two patterns in 10 soft colourways sympathetic to current bathroom decor trends .
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But Mr Ringler says management plans to expand the remaining businesses by capitalizing on current industry trends and introducing new products.
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The then current trends suggested a further 60 percent reduction in the long-stay population within ten years.
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First a quick look at current marriage trends .
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The current trend is to regard many issues of statutory interpretation as questions of law, or mixed law and fact.
demographic
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What other relationships might exist between demographic and economic trends ?
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Birth rates alone are not helpful in assessing the demographic trends .
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As well as demographic trends these include such social and economic factors as alternative opportunities for employment and the supply of places.
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At first this was because of high levels of youth unemployment and latterly because of demographic trends .
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For starters, demographic trends are against it.
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However, decisions regarding the provision of education can not be based solely on demographic trends .
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Therefore many traditional notions about rural decline have to be modified to take account of the remarkable turn-around in demographic trends .
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Focuses on the effects of income, housing costs, employment, education, housing supply, demographic trends and cultural factors.
downward
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The slight improvements in the eighteenth century are important because they mark the beginning of the downward trend .
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A: About Apple, yes, I do see the downward trend continuing.
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Prospects for silver were bleak as the year's downward trend looked set to continue.
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Again, a downward trend is evident.
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This downward trend was so significant during this period that the average working day fell by around 1 hour.
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This in turn has resulted in the downward trend in the value of her currency.
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There were 263,515 marriages in 1999, continuing a downward trend since the peak of 426,241 in 1972.
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The first day attendance of 35,051 continued the downward trend at major meetings.
economic
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What other relationships might exist between demographic and economic trends ?
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Major is struggling to get the voters to focus on positive economic trends .
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In fact the Longbridge saga was more about global economic trends than currencies.
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But they will practice it under pressures created by converging economic and social trends .
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Already a £4.1 billion industry, quick-service restaurants continue to expand as quickly as ever, despite the economic trend .
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Michael Ghiselin developed this idea further in 1974 and made some telling analogies with economic trends .
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However, economic trends and social security changes appear to have undermined these strategies.
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Despite some encouraging economic trends there is as yet no confirmed upturn in activity, and any recovery will be fragile.
future
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Future trends in marital status Future trends in marital status are subject to some uncertainty.
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Even worse, Hoover then attempted to estimate future trends based on the hazards observed between 1986 and 1990.
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Table 7 Disability and dependency Future trends are uncertain.
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And what future trends might be anticipated?
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For these and other reasons, forecasts of future trends in such complex human behaviours as drug-taking are necessarily conditional and tentative.
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The patterns of individual metal price changes will then be followed with the object of assessing future price trends .
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More indicative of future trends than this rising from within the officer corps were the activities of the Petrashevtsy in the 1840s.
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A prime indicator of future trends in many countries that attempt to manage the rates is the black market rate.
general
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SmithKline Beecham was a notable faller against the general trend .
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The first level, which discovers general trends in the forms of wings and beaks, is a case of statistical clustering.
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Before looking at this group, I will first consider some general trends .
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The rate may fall below that, depending on the general trend of interest rates.
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But I can give you some idea of general trends in your life.
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That is not evidence of a general trend .
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The hon. Gentleman has not produced evidence of a general trend .
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Nevertheless the general trend indicated is of a decrease in temperature.
growing
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Mr Stafford Smith is doing his best to reverse the growing trend towards execution and so far he has been very successful.
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It is also part of a growing trend .
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Some of the pilgrims walked barefoot, a growing trend , at which we gasped.
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It is part of a growing trend for television contractors to hive off their advertising sales.
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The menu is based on shared items, which is a growing trend , there is music and we stay open late.
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The growing trend towards private toll roads and bridges is directly contrary to our environmental needs.
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This is a growing trend which meets the approval of EHOs.
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It admitted being hit by the growing trend of big companies to place all their insurance business on a single policy.
late
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This, according to the company's marketing executive Vanessa Lowe, is the latest trend in the sector.
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This latest outdoors trend is enjoyed by a wide range of participants.
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This, apparently, is the latest trend in the sector.
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For those not in sync with the latest trends , microbrew is simply beer brewed in small, local breweries.
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Keeping up with the latest hair trends as ever, Wella has just introduced Hair Sets in three variants.
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Indeed, the latest microbrew trend actually harks back to ancient times, when brewers grabbed whatever flavorings were nearby.
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You no longer take your vitamins in pill form these days - the latest trend is to rub them into your skin.
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The latest trend , however, is barter.
major
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The other major trend that is taking place is the rapid development of colour publishing.
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The cable companies have been part of another major high-tech trend: installation of high-speed fiber-optic networks.
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In fact, there are two aspects of the conventional approach that may make it difficult to pick out major trends .
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Yet as the debate heated up in the mid nineties, gay men witnessed a major national trend in this direction.
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This major social trend has widespread implications in different kinds of geography, not least in connection with elections.
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Similarly, major trends could be lost because of focusing on minor perturbations, or vice versa.
national
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Prior to 1982, unemployment among architects mirrored national trends .
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Yet as the debate heated up in the mid nineties, gay men witnessed a major national trend in this direction.
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The increase in male cancer rates in South-West Cumbria are in line with the national trends over the same period. 4.
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The new leaders vowed to change the national trend of declining union membership.
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Nor does this national trend appear to be atypical.
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However, the study did not indicate that San Diego County housing kept pace with the national trend .
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Cider is bucking the national trend ... beer sales fell by ten percent over the same period.
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A prize of nearly £2,000 for top dairy cattle has encouraged a huge entry of 777 animals, bucking downward national trends .
new
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Being alert to new trends , watching the costs and day-to-day profitability may be enough.
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And there is even something of a new trend to look for positive news to report.
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The company is small and flexible and can easily cope with new trends in designs.
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But it is easy to predict the events that new trends will make more likely.
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In the last decades of the nineteenth century certain new trends of long-term importance began to emerge.
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But an Examiner computer analysis has uncovered a new trend: Human names are all the rage for canines.
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Though viewed by many as a relic of the 1890s, she never lost her enthusiasm for new artistic trends .
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The talk is followed by a panel discussion on new trends in families.
overall
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Since the mid-'60s, in other words, the overall trend has been upwards.
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Profitability ratios are very encouraging, with both the overall level and trend of earnings looking positive.
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The overall trend , however, has been upward - an increase in real terms of 11.6 percent.
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But in rapidly heating or cooling markets, new-home prices can signal a change in overall price trends .
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It also begins to look at some of the processes which together make up these overall trends .
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Nevertheless, the court noted that the overall trend in the statistics indicated a decrease in student enrollment and upheld the dismissals.
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It smooths or blurs the image so that local deviations from the overall trend are removed.
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Supply will depend on project approvals and interest rates -- not to mention overall trends in the economy.
present
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Though the usual variation is present the upward trend is continued.
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But if present trends continue, only 8, 880 will be available.
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It may be that with the present trend towards measurement numerical classifications will come back into vogue.
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However, on present trends , these goals will not be met.
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On present trends the goal will slip again or be forgotten.
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Slightly worrying is what we can expect from the ensuing composite present trend .
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The long-term implications of these habitat losses for individual species, if the present trends continue, are likely to be disastrous.
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The present idiotic trends can not go on for ever, and there could soon be drastic changes.
recent
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Social polarization Recent trends have tended to produce greater social divisions between places.
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Overlook recent sales trends , Harvey said.
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The recent trend toward cognitive approaches to metaphor provides a means of formalizing such a conception.
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Next week's unemployment figures are not expected to show any significant reversal in the recent upward trend .
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In Britain, for example, there is no excuse for not knowing recent trends in the cost of living.
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It is more of a walk through the literature and recent trends .
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Historical documentation suggests that /a/ backing is a recent trend .
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However, recent trends in farming practice have made agriculture even more incompatible with uncontrolled recreation.
rising
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There has, moreover, been a continuously rising trend of absenteeism since the plant opened.
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But the group warned that the upturn would not be enough to reverse the rising trend in unemployment.
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A rising inflationary trend and a persistent fiscal deficit during 1990 were exacerbated by the continuing civil war and rising petrol prices.
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In this age group, the long-term rising trend in casualties to infants both as pedestrians and passengers shows no significant downturn.
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The Government's underlying aim is now to get growth back into the economy soas to reverse the rising trend in unemployment.
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The underlying rising trend that existed before the introduction of the contract was, however, maintained.
significant
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The research revealed several significant trends .
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Its pioneering clients generated enormous publicity, but is a significant trend likely?
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A significant trend is taking place from measuring practitioners' competence and activity to measuring health outcomes in populations.
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One of the most significant trends in recent years may prove to be the growth of religious consciousness in the West.
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The number of cross-tabulations involved is very large, and significant trends are easily lost.
similar
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A similar trend is also developing whereby parents sell their home when their children have established an independent existence.
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There may be similar trends in imprisonment in other advanced capitalist societies which face similar economic and social problems to Britain.
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In those aged 60-69 years similar trends were observed only for fasting triglyceride.
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A similar trend is evident for acute health problems.
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A similar upward trend is evident in potential demand, with the increasing number of smaller households.
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Goods traffic on the roads will show a similar upward trend .
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This relation was most apparent among never users of oral contraceptives, although similar trends were found among current and former users.
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Since 1971 this growth has continued, and a similar trend is evident in all Western industrial capitalist societies.
social
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Those who believe that the family is a major force for good in our society should strive to move against this social trend .
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But they will practice it under pressures created by converging economic and social trends .
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Consumption patterns are influenced by many factors, including social trends , prosperity and industrialisation.
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In the rest of the country, and in post-Plague London, the change was due to social trends more than anything else.
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This is part of a general social trend to increase customer choice and to limit the power of professionals.
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But nothing we could do would reverse fundamental social trends which were producing more and more lone parents.
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A new intellectual independence can also be correlated with longer-term social trends .
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Health and personal social services expenditure trends are harder to interpret.
underlying
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He also reckons there are underlying growth trends in the market for connecting personal computers to networks.
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Share prices follow a random walk without any underlying trend . 5.
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The annual rate of inflation for June was lower at 3.9%, and the underlying trend appears downward.
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Grouping data in this way obscures the underlying trend .
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The annual report artificially parcels up the underlying economic trends into years.
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By comparing a series of annual reports the chances of seeing the underlying trends are so much greater.
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In such situations, smoothing aims to remove the error component and leave the underlying true trend .
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The underlying rising trend that existed before the introduction of the contract was, however, maintained.
upward
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Though the usual variation is present the upward trend is continued.
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In all three areas, the numbers showed a steady upward trend .
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Next week's unemployment figures are not expected to show any significant reversal in the recent upward trend .
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Then, from 1957 to 1980, as the labor consultants appear, there is a steady upward trend .
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Linear and quadratic time trends were included to control for the upward trend in volume.
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A similar upward trend is evident in potential demand, with the increasing number of smaller households.
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With golf still increasing in popularity, this upward trend shows no sign of abating.
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Goods traffic on the roads will show a similar upward trend .
■ VERB
buck
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Last year it took 32 % of the mobile phone market and is looking to buck the worldwide trend .
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Some tech issues bucked the selling trend .
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Though initial offerings in a handful of years did buck this trend , they did so by tiny amounts.
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Wisconsin Central Transportation Corp. bucked the trend , gaining 3 3 / 4 to 77 1 / 4.
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The shares bucked the market trend , rising one penny to 491p.
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Every so often, some one would buck the trend: in 1982 Mr Kinnock was dropped from the slate, but kept his place.
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Companies making products for the Internet bucked the trend and held up well in the fourth quarter.
continue
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There were 263,515 marriages in 1999, continuing a downward trend since the peak of 426,241 in 1972.
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Charging investors for reinvesting dividends continues a trend of higher fees on Wall Street.
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The first day attendance of 35,051 continued the downward trend at major meetings.
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Natural Born Killers continued this trend .
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Total employed labour on farms fell by six percent continuing the long term trend decline.
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The manufactured-housing group is expected to continue its trend toward higher earnings.
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The current volume continues the trend in previous editions of increasing the emphasis on clinical information.
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AnnTaylor continued to miss fashion trends and posted a 14 percent same-store sales decline.
disturb
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Showed disturbing trend in blowing double-digit leads and having to come back late in wins over Cal and Stanford.
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Mercy and others who track violence see two disturbing trends , also reflected locally: Guns increasingly are used to settle disputes.
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The study also showed a disturbing trend in another area: hours worked.
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And there is a further disturbing trend: A few medical ethicists are being paid fees for their consultative services.
expect
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The University expects this trend to continue.
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The manufactured-housing group is expected to continue its trend toward higher earnings.
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Henry Kaufman, the economist and investment analyst, might be expected to welcome the trend .
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But analysts expect the bullish trend to continue.
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Bayer expects the current trend to have continued in Q4 of 1991.
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I expect to see the trend continue if sensible policies continue to be pursued.
follow
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Lesson four: don't follow trends Like Buddhism and Epping Forest, the road to fitness has many paths.
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In doing so, it was no doubt following a world trend .
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A south-southeast-trending gravity high follows the trend of the 1989 fracture system and is displaced 100m west.
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Physicians were both following and encouraging the trend for thinness.
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In general terms the price series produced follow one of three trends .
identify
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To identify changes and trends in trade and consumer practices and as a consequence research and recommend appropriate enforcement/advisory techniques.
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Examine your sales records to identify trends .
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But, if I were to identify a trend , I would do so on a retailing analogy.
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It will be much more difficult to identify one design trend .
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The data thus collected will be used to identify trends in the technologies studied.
increase
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The action reversed a trend in which the two countries appeared to be edging ever so slightly toward increased cooperation.
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Return on sales is currently just below the industry average of 3. 5 percent, and shows a rapidly increasing trend .
reflect
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The exclusion from patent of computer programs reflects international trends .
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The rise of these organizations reflects the trend toward special-interest politics that has accompanied the decline of the political party.
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Art, being the alter-ego of Religion, reflects this trend , albeit at an intensified rate.
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The focus on households with children reflects recent trends in economic welfare in Britain.
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Reported opioid misuse seems to reflect this trend .
reverse
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Mr Stafford Smith is doing his best to reverse the growing trend towards execution and so far he has been very successful.
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The action reversed a trend in which the two countries appeared to be edging ever so slightly toward increased cooperation.
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Parts and accessories sales declined sharply, reversing an earlier trend .
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Tyler had been charged with reversing this trend .
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Liberal Democrats will reverse this trend by: Creating safe and secure communities.
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The conference was misleadingly regarded as a success and as reversing the trend in relations.
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Both the president and the Republican Congress want to reverse that trend with broadly similar plans.
set
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It caught on over here some years later with the Seven Men of Preston setting the trend .
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The bank rate sets the trend for home, vehicle and other consumer loans.
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But although the sensationally styled Calibra sets the trend , it is by no means the only exponent of the field.
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The rate, which sets the trend for home and other consumer loans, is now at its lowest since November 1994.
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Uproar, laughter, lots of silly grins and had it set a trend ?
show
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Standardised mortality ratios from cardiovascular disease showed no trend with placental weight.
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In all three areas, the numbers showed a steady upward trend .
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Written sources provide systematic periodic data that can show trends and provide other relevant facts.
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Return on sales is currently just below the industry average of 3. 5 percent, and shows a rapidly increasing trend .
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These measurements, which will show trends in energy use, identify areas needing urgent attention.
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The study also showed a disturbing trend in another area: hours worked.
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It can happen, however, that records kept during some interventions show a worsening trend .
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No other morphometric or laboratory parameter showed such a constant trend at the individual level.
start
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McLaren started the trend a few years ago by bringing along a motor home which, when parked, then expanded skywards.
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Maybe it will start a trend .
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If that were all, I'd applaud it as a wise and public-spirited action and I hope it starts a trend .
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So, I guess I started supporting Leeds just as they started their downward trend .
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Arkansas Coach Danny Ford started the trend with a 17-16 win in September.
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I thought that I would start my own trend , an all-in-one suit.
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We started the trend in part-exchange, for example.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
follow a pattern/course/trend etc
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For troubled marriages, researcher Karen Kayser has found, follow a pattern.
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He followed a pattern set two years ago by former Sen.
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In this venture, Clinton is following a course set by a number of his predecessors.
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Lesson four: don't follow trends Like Buddhism and Epping Forest, the road to fitness has many paths.
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The results of these contradictions tend to follow a pattern.
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These sections naturally follow one from the other, and thus the organization of the headings in these two chapters follows patterns.
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This observation follows a pattern frequently encountered in research in this area.
style-setter/trend-setter/standard-setter etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A lot of the students here don't think for themselves, they just follow the latest trends.
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If current trends continue, tourism in the state will increase by 10%.
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If present trends continue, the earth will be considerably warmer in fifty years.
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Our managers are very alert to new trends in the industry.
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The current trend in this area is towards part-time employment.
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There is a growing trend towards payment by credit card.
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Today we'll be examining the latest trends in kitchen design
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dallas and Houston also bucked the trend .
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In fact the Longbridge saga was more about global economic trends than currencies.
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Indeed, this trend to the right is more pronounced among prelaw students, especially the men, than among all freshmen.
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Lately, it seems to me that this is becoming a trend .
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The massive trend , from 1965 to 1980, towards diversification is now largely seen to have been a mistake.
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This latter connection is important because it emphasises a probable key trend .
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Together these trends have produced the own-label threat.