The phrase "a trend that needs" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a trend that requires attention, change, or action.
Example: "There is a trend that needs to be addressed in our marketing strategy to better engage our audience."
Alternatives: "a trend that requires" or "a trend that demands".
It's a trend that needs to be investigated".
They trot home to Islington and drink white wine after watching people screech at each other and take heroin – that's a trend that needs to be bucked.
Attacks on journalists in Russia is becoming a "trend that needs to stop" according to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
Silicon may be one of the most abundant materials on the earth, but the absolute obsession with naming any tech office park after Silicon Valley is a trend that needs to stop.
Others believe they're a trend that needs to calm down immediately.
Consistent with this finding, patients infected by HIV-1 strain with V60I and TAM1 had an higher viremia than those infected by HIV-1 strain with TAM1 only (5.30 versus 3.9 log copies/ml, respectively, P = 0.09); however, the limited sample size allow us to describe only a trend, that needs to be confirmed in a larger dataset.
Alongside nationals from China, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand involved in the illegal wildlife trade, Knight said that for the first time he had heard of North Korean nationals being implicated, which he said was a trend that needed watching closely.
This is a demographic trend that needs to stop, and the way it will stop is through the growth of the following companies.
This increase in nonclassical phenotypes may be an emerging trend that needs to be under close surveillance.
What's more, ID cards are just a small but visible manifestation of a wider and more troubling trend.The wider trend that needs watching is the computerisation of the state.
Another trend that needs to come to an end, Fink said, is the instinct on the part of CEOs and chief financial officers to pay out sky-high proportions of their earnings in the form of dividends.
