(1) I confess it is a fashionable trend , but in summer, I think most people choose cotton or silk.

(2) An upward trend in sales and profit margins

(3) Some trends may be apparent but other changes may occur which may contradict the general direction of the trend .

(4) The general trend is towards currency management against a basket which reflects the trading mix of imports and exports.

(5) But we expect the general trend in 2000 will be in the opposite direction to last year.

(6) As a general trend , sales of Irish newspapers have declined during the past quarter.

(7) The point is that the general trend is moving in the positive direction.

(8) At any rate, there is a worrying trend developing along the North Mayo coast.

(9) The most recent batch reverse that trend , generally showing the parties to be even.

(10) The trend indicates the general tendency or direction over the long-term.

(11) These improvements, whilst trending in the right direction, are somewhat variable from week to week.

(12) Cable modem services, with monthly fees trending upward to a rough average of $45, have proved popular and sticky in the face of all the growth pains.

(13) But what is the real impact on the home front of our obsession with fashionable and vogue trends ?

(14) And the channel that plays the hit music is now setting trends in fashion.

(15) The paleoshoreline trended roughly northwest-southeast through the Big Bend region at that time.

(16) Our recruiting figures have not looked better for a number of years and our retention is trending in the right direction.

(17) Thus, any forging of a pair-bond system within the species which trended toward promiscuity would be very slow to congeal across generations.

(18) And all the leading economic indicators are trending upward.

(19) This zone forms a narrow band that trends from Loch Eriboll south to the Isle of Skye, and is bounded on the east by the Moine thrust fault.

(20) In the future, demographics may alter food trends in yet different directions.