1.   A similar upward trend is evident in potential demand, with the increasing number of smaller households.

2.   Goods traffic on the roads will show a similar upward trend.

3.   In all three areas, the numbers showed a steady upward trend.

4.   Linear and quadratic time trends were included to control for the upward trend in volume.

5.   Though the usual variation is present the upward trend is continued.

6.   With golf still increasing in popularity, this upward trend shows no sign of abating.

7.   Today, we have not only halted the upward trend but have in fact reversed it, so that our costs are declining in real terms.

8.   The longer you leave it the more likely you are to profit from the upward trend in equities established now for nearly a century.

9.   The Scottish industry minister, Allan Stewart, said it was too early to say if this was the end of the upward trend in unemployment.

10.   There was no upward trend in government borrowing.