"Prior to 2008, there was a trend where the number of farms was falling, but that trend tapered when the milk price lifted.
While refinancing activity has been tapering off, home-buying trends remain strong, and Golden West should continue its solid loan growth.
While the proportion of casual jobs increased throughout the 1990s, this trend tapered off during the 2000s, particularly for women".
Australian wines now account for about 13percentt of American imports, up from less than 3percentt five years ago, and even if the growth trend tapers off, Australia is well on the way to becoming the United States' leading source.
Though it then tapered off, the trend is clear: More than 78percentt of corporate travel managers surveyed last spring by the Business Travel Coalition, a lobbying group, said they had increased their reliance on teleconferencing and 86percentt said they planned to do so in 2002.
In recent years, however, the rate of improvement in conventional chips has begun to taper off, a trend that shows no sign of abating.
[C5.] Declining Ticket Sales Hurt Newspaper Advertising Movie studios have significantly increased ad spending in newspapers in recent years, but with shrinking ticket sales and an array of new places to advertise, that trend may be tapering off.
We also find a time trend to deviations, with the magnitude tapering off as time progresses.
"The progress has been very substantial, but the trend has tapered off in the last few years," Ms. Winthrop said.
I've said many times that the superhero movie trend will taper off at some point, and in its place there will be a flood of video game films given how many there are that could potentially be adapted into films.
Bride-burning and other fatal attacks over disappointing dowries began tapering off after independence as education and income levels began a slow rising trend, said Vishakha Desai, a former president of the Asia Society and professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
