11.   The new leaders vowed to change the national trend of Declining union membership.

12.   The Republicans drew comfort from the fact that trends of opinion had, for some time, been moving in their direction.

13.   There has, moreover, been a continuously rising trend of absenteeism since the plant opened.

14.   This data will be analysed for any patterns or trends of activity.

15.   To save the planet we must set the trend of caring for the environment.

16.   With the current trend of services contribution and manufacturing to the national economy, services outweigh manufacturing by far.

17.   Worries have been expressed about the current trend of amalgamating sales teams.

18.   ...the trend of contracting services out rather than performing them in-house.

19.   ...a spiralling trend of violence.

20.   Fitness gurus call it the hottest new exercise trend of the year.