1.   But, if I were to identify a trend, I would do so on a retailing analogy.

2.   Examine your sales records to identify trends.

3.   The data thus collected will be used to identify trends in the technologies studied.

4.   The program is designed to help identify emerging trends in drug use.

5.   The same accounting methods are applied over a series of reporting periods so that trends can be identified and comparisons made.

6.   Among the handful of US companies that have changed their travel policies or procedures, the BNA identified several trends.

7.   Both, however, identify common trends for book publishing over the next five years.

8.   But investigators and experts concede that documentation of hate crimes is so new and can vary so much that no broad trends can be identified from the available data.

9.   But it also identifies trends that make the government look less the prudent liberalizers of their own propaganda, more the spendthrift military dictators portrayed by their opponents.

10.   Compliance audits are the primary IRS tool to identify trends in inaccurate reporting of income and deductions.