'weak tendency' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a behavior that is barely noticeable or not very strong. For example, "There has been a weak tendency for people to stay in their homes more during the pandemic."
This trend is attributed to a relatively weak tendency for W segregation to the grain boundaries.
In these films, coercivity exhibited a weak tendency to increase with temperature.
There was a weak tendency (R-square=0.12, P=0.08) for specific activity (revertants/mg "tar") to increase with decreasing "tar" yield lower "tar" products had a slightly higher specific activity.
While our descriptive statistics show that Chinese city-regions at the prefectural level have a weak tendency towards polycentricity from 2000 to 2010, regression models reveal that a more monocentric spatial structure performs better in terms of labor productivity, a result that a stricter two-stage least square estimation supports.
According to Giere, on the other hand, the die has a weak tendency to land '3'.
Panel B shows that the in- and out-degrees are strongly correlated but there is weak tendency for large-degree nodes to have larger in- than out degrees.
The observed weak tendency of r0 to increase with the observed FIR flux may result from a combination of these two effects.
There are subtle differences in the seasonal variation of a 2. In March equinox, positive values of a 2 are seen in the forenoon and the pre-midnight period signifying a weak tendency for amplification.
There was a weak tendency for units of intermediate in-degree to have higher MRSA prevalence, but the chance to find a MRSA positive patient in a high-degree unit was almost as high.
There was no significant association between pain relief and the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism, however, the researchers observed a weak tendency that more responders carry the short-short genotype and more non-responders carry the long-long genotype [36].
Measuring the prevalence of MRSA by the ratio of patient-hours by patients that has tested positive with MRSA at the unit to the total patient hours at the unit, we conclude that there was a weak tendency for heightened prevalence for units of intermediate centrality.
