The phrase "was no consistent trend" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the phrase when referring to any situation in which there is no clear or foreseeable pattern of behavior, movement, or development. For example, "Despite the increasing popularity of electric vehicles in recent years, there was no consistent trend in the sales of gasoline powered vehicles."
There was no consistent trend in the results regarding the influence of evoked context of hedonic responses.
In saplings (1 10 cm dbh), there was no consistent trend in stand-wide mortality over 30 years.
For all six temperatures studied, three tobacco-specific nitrosamines or TSNAs (NNN, NNK and NAT) were quantifiable, but there was no consistent trend across the temperature range.
Since there was no consistent trend in the ratio between low, medium, and high wood density sites within the data collection region, an assumption was made that the ratios would be applicable to stems located at all 17 sites.
However, in matK, there was no consistent trend of species resolution with decreasing length as observed in other loci.
Although there were fluctuations in viral titers over time and among lineages for chicken-passaged SLEV, there was no consistent trend observed.
Beyond industrial areas "there is no consistent trend in lead concentrations, moving away from the Exide facility, as would be expected if Exide was the source of all lead in the residential area," Exide's statement read.
According to published data, there appears to be no consistent trend in favor of any of the two sexes winning this evolutionary conflict over mating initiation [16], [17].
There is no consistent trend, further study is necessary.
In summary, we find there is no consistent trend in our estimates of K with the different EGF treatments.
However, there is no consistent trend in the relative performances of both methods (measures in terms of CRR and MCC ratio) when the loss-to-gain ratio increases.
