Sentence examples for a modest trend from inspiring English sources

That represents a modest trend toward skepticism.

And in Connecticut they constitute a modest trend.

The number of applications received hit a record high in 2015, but has returned to a modest trend since then.

But what was once a modest trend has become a full-blown craze inside the liberal yeshivas of New York City, where skullcap styles go in and out of fashion the way hemlines do at other institutions.

The section of the State Department's report dealing with China said the situation worsened there in 2005, reversing a modest trend toward improved respect for rights that the department had observed earlier.

In the brain, a modest trend indicating reduced whole brain FDG uptake at lower weight and age can be discerned.

The cost per sex worker served decreases with increasing number of sex workers served annually, but this has to be weighed against an associated modest trend of decrease in time spent with each sex worker in some programmes.

The inclusion of Non-verbal IQ as an additional covariate in the ANCOVA analyses revealed a very modest trending effect for response time (F 1,20)=2.8, P=0.11), with a significant effect for response time variability (F 1,20)=5.5, P=0.029).

Decreasing neighborhood advantage summary score was associated with increased prevalence of smoking most clearly in black women with evidence of a similar but more modest trend being apparent for the other race and sex groups (Table 3).

A similar but more modest trend was observed in the control hospitals (at baseline in one intervention hospital, H2, none of the children admitted met the criteria for inclusion into this sample).

First, Republican Senate candidates benefited from a modest upward trend over the course of the campaign.