Sentence examples for gradual trends from inspiring English sources

Confidence indexes and other measures of public thinking show gradual trends, often over years, that don't match up precisely with economic events, which are often sudden.

Cataclysmic events, such as intense volcanic activity and the impact of a celestial body, or more gradual trends, such as changes in sea levels, oceanic temperature, salinity, or nutrients, fluctuations in oxygen and carbon dioxide levels, climatic cooling, and cosmic radiation, have been proposed to explain the Permian-Triassic crisis.

Drifts in calibration (gradual trends up or down) can occur in individual scanners over time, as can break points (jumps) because of machine repairs, for example.

The advantage of using the criterion proposed by us is that ruptures with different patterns and lengths (including gradual trends) are included.

Specifically, we addressed data challenges that are common to many jurisdictions, including improving consistency of case inclusion criteria, accounting for gradual trends and aberrations in historical data, and accounting for reporting delays.

To prevent this bias, after adjusting for gradual trends, we considered any 4-week period in which disease counts were >4 SD above the average to be an outlier and reset the count to the average number of cases in the remaining historical instances of that 4-week period.

"There is gradual trend towards takeaway food, there is no doubt about that," Wild said.

The gradual trend away from big-star vehicles in the summer has been under way for years.

There will be a gradual trend towards more flexible working, including zero hours contracts, particularly among charities, according to Mark Beeston, chief economist at the CIPD.

With any luck, there would be a copycat next season, then a gradual trend and then a nationwide movement that would quickly spread to the insufferable foot-stampers of the basketball arena.

During the period from 1919 through 1934, there was a gradual trend to all-metal construction, with some aircraft having all-metal (almost always of aluminum or aluminum alloy) structures with fabric-covered surfaces, and others using an all-metal monocoque construction.