"a prevailing trend" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a pattern of behavior that's practiced by the majority of people in a certain environment. For example: "The use of social media to stay connected with family and friends is a prevailing trend among younger generations."
What the company didn't see was the roots of a prevailing trend, away from arcade conversions and traditional role-playing adventures and toward a much wider console development community with fresh ideas about gameplay and structure.
Some might argue that trying to identify a prevailing trend at a show as sprawling and diverse as Art Basel — the original, Swiss edition of the semiannual art fair, which hosts 300 galleries across 300,000 square feet and spans the last century of contemporary art — is a fool's errand.
Integrating game-based approaches with learning constitutes a prevailing trend in education and training, applied in several domains, one of which is cultural heritage.
Laurence BonJour argues that reflecting on the value of knowledge leads us to reject a prevailing trend in epistemology over the past several decades, namely, fallibilism, or what BonJour calls the "weak conception" of knowledge.
The history of land tenure transformation in Africa shows a prevailing trend whereby the erosion of collectively held communal grazing lands and natural resources under customary tenure is being hastened by policies that support privatisation of formally communal grazing lands (Rohde et al. 2006).
A prevailing trend of gradual diminishment in the projected median survival between various patient groups was observed.
Although these frequencies differ from protein to protein and from species to species, there is a clear, prevailing trend of abundant amino acids to possess larger codon series than rare amino acids (e.g., such abundant amino acids as Leu and Ser are each encoded by 6 codons [ 22, 55]).
It was a big deal but just part of the prevailing trend of a heady era.
What Dati has done is give a mighty boost to the prevailing trend that what one achieves - fame, wealth, performance in a turbo-charged career - is vastly more significant than the investment we make in emotional intimacy.
DaimlerChrysler has been a notable exception to the prevailing trend.
If results are positive, this study will provide a reason to reconsider the prevailing trend toward limitation of ambulatory services that is characteristic of many managed care systems today.
