The phrase "this latter trend" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the second of two trends or ideas previously mentioned, with the first trend being referred to as "the former trend." Example: The recent shift towards online shopping has greatly affected brick-and-mortar retailers. However, this latter trend has also presented new opportunities for businesses to reach a wider audience and increase sales.
Should this latter trend successfully be reversed, the air pollution challenge would worsen faster, unless radically new approaches and technologies were put to use.
This latter trend may be in agreement with our observations with both clinical and reference strains of P. aeruginosa.
This latter trend indicates, perhaps, that many apps are seen as disposable by users – they're things we play with until we get bored, finish a task, or until the next great new thing comes along.
However, this latter trend to gain momentum in early 2010, joined by resumed growth in the higher priced corporate segments, especially in servers where average selling prices are high and competitive factors point to markedly higher margins.
This latter trend was, however, not statistically significant, likely due to the insufficient number of SNPs.
This latter trend was further confirmed for most populations (although not all) when increasing the number of inferred clusters toward the number of populations (K = 47).
The balaclava-clad joy-rider from Hartlepool was but the most startling recent example of the latter trend.
For the rest of the year, the latter trend often reverses, and big stocks beat the small fry.
The former trend represented a genuine revolution in how we treated the guilty; the latter trend just reflects our anxieties about possibly executing the innocent.
Reflecting the latter trend, the Indian monsoon has been seeing more of its rainfall in extreme events than it did in the past.
RunKeeper is involved in the latter trend as one of the partners for US insurance company Aetna's CarePass scheme, although users have to explicitly connect their RunKeeper account to CarePass before any data is shared.
