1.   Cider is bucking the national trend ... beer sales fell by ten percent over the same period.

2.   Crime rates in Manchester bucked the national trend.

3.   However, the study did not indicate that San Diego County housing kept pace with the national trend.

4.   Nor does this national trend appear to be atypical.

5.   The increase in male cancer rates in South-West Cumbria are in line with the national trends over the same period.

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

7.   Yet as the debate heated up in the mid nineties, gay men witnessed a major national trend in this direction.

8.   There is a leisure boom in Japan, and like many national trends here it is largely a government-led phenomenon.

9.   The Council for Protection of Rural England says, however, that although the schemes are welcome, the national trend may still be a net loss.

10.   Cider is bucking the national trend... beer sales fell by ten percent over the same period.