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"trends up" is a perfectly valid part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it when you need to describe an upward trend in something. For example: "Sales of organic produce have been trending up for the past five years."
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Our popularity continues with UCAS applications bucking national trends – up 13 compared to 3%.
Long-term population trends, up or down, result from changes in the suitability of the habitat and are reflected in the number of adults that can settle to breed in an area.
"Whatever optimism we had a month or two ago is now muted, somewhat," said John Morton, a partner in the Barry Group, a media consulting company based in Bethesda, Md. And William Drewry, a Credit Suisse First Boston analyst who usually tends toward optimism, was guarded in his comments, saying that the monthly numbers have been too erratic to signal any trends, up or down.
The inclusion of data on greenhouse gas emissions in climate models yields a substantially better fit of observed climatic trends up to 2000.
The development of multi-level governance is often described as a result of three broad developmental trends: up, down and out (Pierre and Peters, 2000), or as combining a vertical and horizontal dimension of multi-level governance (Hooghe and Marks, 2003).
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.
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Is that number trending up, trending down?
To be honest, things started to really trend up this week.
Construction loan commitments are trending up, the firm found.
"The general trend of business is still O.K. and trending up".
Estimates are likely to continue to trend up in the weeks leading up to earnings.
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