11.   They started this nice-slacks-on-the-fairway trend a few years back.

12.   A housing-industry boom and favorable exchange rates will combine to help Australia buck the global economic slowdown trend this year, a leading forecaster said Monday.

13.   He said the government next year would follow the private sector trend this year, which was expected to be bad.

14.   The outsourcing of IT shops among large conglomerates, banks and other organisations, will be a usual trend this year.

15.   The trends this year have been distinctly negative.