The phrase "an overall pattern" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a general trend or recurring theme observed in data, behavior, or events.
Example: "After analyzing the results, we noticed an overall pattern indicating a significant increase in customer satisfaction over the past year."
Alternatives: "a general trend" or "a comprehensive pattern."
At the same time, exercise can induce an overall pattern of calm in certain parts of the brain.
A more famous one is "Feathers" (1957), an overall pattern of small diamonds in blue and mustard colors derived from the plumage used in Peruvian and Hawaiian ceremonial cloaks.
Leibniz insisted that a good, all-powerful God must have created the best of possible worlds and that the contrasting evil is somehow necessary to an overall pattern of good.
In "Frost Brittled Branches" (1976), crooked vertical lines of silvery white enliven an overall pattern of white puffs and short horizontal strokes on a lavender gray ground, to wintry effect.
However, the BBC Trust said it was "disappointed" to see findings that showed that in July 2007 there were just 4.6m click-throughs by UK users from bbc.co.uk to external websites, with an overall pattern "trending downwards".
This fits an overall pattern, she said, that is specific not to Wall Street but exists wherever traditionally macho behavior is what it takes to be successful.
The findings helped her develop a CPG model that treated the different spinal segments as individual oscillators that are coupled together to produce an overall pattern of activity.
The processes to be used in extraction and refining are selected to fit into an overall pattern, with the product from the first process becoming the feed material of the second process, and so on.
'The seizures made in the UK in 2005 relate to an overall pattern where ethnic/language-based groups are moving product within south Asia by making many, many small runs,' said Gary Lewis, regional representative of the UNDC, based in New Delhi.
Among the pottery, baskets, textiles and jewelry here are treasures like the "Bright Morning Light" basket bowl (1921), woven of tule and fern root with an overall pattern of black claws by Dat So La Lee, a former laundress of Washoe ancestry.
The complaint offers a few examples of what it says is an overall pattern of inappropriate behavior, including the case of a police officer who made a practice of frequenting a local diner, making lewd comments and "sexually touching several 16-year-old females employed there".
