The phrase "about a tendency of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific inclination or pattern related to a subject or behavior.
Example: "The research paper focuses on the tendency of individuals to procrastinate when faced with challenging tasks."
Alternatives: "regarding a tendency to" or "concerning a tendency for".
"A joke's a joke but he has a tendency of talking about parts of the country like they're alien concepts," said Alan Lane, the artistic director of Leeds' award-winning Slung Low theatre.
In 1944, for instance, he worried about "a tendency to disbelieve in the existence of objective truth because all the facts have to fit in with the words and prophecies of some infallible fuhrer.
Correction: January 10 , 2003 Friday An article on Monday about a recent tendency of college students to remain closely tied to their parents referred incompletely to a federal law that bars disclosure of grades to parents without the student's consent.
Tenzing may also have been encouraged to play down his Buddhism by some of his Hindu friends, who are worried about a tendency toward divisiveness on the part of the country's religious minorities.
This incredible diversity has come about through the tendency of these plants to hybridise and to double up their sets of chromosomes, often as part of asexual reproduction.
Early on in the book, when Morrissey is not yet a teen (I think), there is a passage about the tendency of his family to get into car accidents.
At about 530°C a clear tendency of increase in weight is seen in Fig. 5.
If Moyes needed a reminder about the tendency of the Spanish temperament to indulge in flamboyant emotional outbursts - quite different from the stoic Scots - he was provided with one just half an hour into his first game in the country.
But it captured an idea about the tendency of the world to require replenishment on which its immediate successor was silent, and which prefigured some ideas that thermodynamics would bring to science most of a century later.The bygone and the marginalised always look strange.
The first type of regularity is Destination regularity, which is about measuring the tendency of a targeted individual to visit a similar set of destinations on the same day of the week, e.g. Monday this week is similar to Monday next week.
