1.   Total employed labour on farms fell by six percent continuing the long term trend Decline.

2.   Based on the data we have now, one cannot draw any conclusions about long-XXXX term trends because of the natural fluctuations, he said.

3.   He would even comment on short-term auto sales fluctuations, but only after warning his questioner that the statistics were close to meaningless in predicting longer term trends.

4.   The real earnings report is volatile from month to month, and the longer term trend points to higher earnings.

5.   The whales produced record-few offspring this year and biologists are not sure if the long term population trend is up or down.

6.   What is not clear, say Wall Street economists and Washington policymakers, is whether that increase in tax revenue represents a short-term phenomenon or a longer term trend.

7.   ALTHOUGH the Japanese yen slipped against the ringgit last week, its longer term trend is up.

8.   He said the short term trend was also expected to be directed by corporate results.

9.   Dickinson sees many of those first time travelers as part of a long term trend in US vacation habits.

10.   It prefers to look instead at longer term trends.