Sentence examples for Explain the trend from inspiring English sources

Various factors explain the trend.

Voting experts say several factors explain the trend.

We first evaluated whether progressively lower sampling effort (i.e., uncounted trees) could explain the trend.

Census Bureau officials cited a number of factors to explain the trend.

Van Reenen said one factor that could explain the trend is that it's simply taking longer for researchers to achieve the level of education they need to make a breakthrough discovery.

The study looked at 8,736 home sales between 1996 and 2005, and a tricky alphabet soup of models and analyses to allow an apples-to-apples comparison, but it did not try to explain the trend.

Anecdotal evidence suggests this is partly due to a lower average age among interviewees in London, but there are suggestions that BlackBerry's popularity among young black people, through the urban music scene, could also explain the trend.

Changing genes could not possibly explain the trend (they take millennia to alter), although there is some evidence that it could be partly due to the greater quantity of body fat in our increasingly obese child population.

Jason Gabel, an urban planner at the Chicago-based CoUrban on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, which keeps a global skyscraper database, says advances in building technology partly explain the trend.

In the end, however, Governor Vilsack, Mr. Stilwill, and Professor Hoover can't fully explain the trends.

The paper asks to what extent short-term real interest rates, bond risks, and liquidity explain the trends before 2008 and the unusual developments in the fall of 2008.