11.   COMPSTAT tracks crime statistics including the locations of burglaries or stolen cars, and maps them out to help officers spot trends.

12.   Dale Conoscenti is the flavor developer in charge of pints, who takes an annual culinary trip to spot trends.

13.   Coverage is wider and cheaper than that done by armies of scientists on the ground and can aid in spotting trends.

14.   Data-mining software used by financial companies could be used to spot health trends as early warnings for bioterrorism attacks.

15.   Forsman spots a trend.

16.   Have we spotted a trend?

17.   He has several teaching sessions a year with his managers, showing them how to spot industry trends and have the confidence to move on them.

18.   How do you spot a trend?

19.   It is supposed to spot trends and encourage the formation of joint investigative teams.

20.   Mr. McCann has also spotted a trend in which people return to the ethnic, and often long, names their ancestors chopped off somewhere down the line.