Of course decades at the top of that gentle warming trend (of about 0.8 degrees C) are going to be, on average, warmer than those at the bottom.
Inflation hovered around zero during 2015 but has been on a gentle upward trend since the turn of the year.
"Over the past 18 months, new-home sales have been on the gentle rising trend although they remain at a very depressed level," said Steven Wood, chief economist at Insight Economics.
GDP growth: 7.3% GDP per head: $7,740 (PPP: $11,090) Inflation: 3.4% Budget balance (% GDP) -2.0 Population: 1.34bnThe economy is on a gentle downward trend as a new generation of leaders shifts focus from low-value-added exports and government stimulus to self-sustaining consumer demand.
Joe Grice from ONS said: "We have been on a plateau, with a gentle upward trend, and quite a bumpy one".
That's because, historically, sharp swings have canceled each other out to produce, over time, a gentle upward trend for stocks.
Herd-level seroprevalence varied significantly over the 9 years of study and showed a gentle rising trend from 2000 to 2008.
Compared with the initially gentle downward trend with an annual percentage change of −1.2 (95 % C.I.: −2.6, 0.2), the second part of the graph shows an increased upward trend with an annual percentage change of 3.5 (95 % C.I.: 0.5, 6.7).
The obtained elastic constants and polycrystalline elastic moduli exhibit gentle softening trends with temperature, and the variation tendency is also very similar.
This system worked whilst countries helped each other with loans to solve periodic balance-of-payments crises (and while gold discoveries made for gentle price-level trends) but World War One disrupted this system.
