"Since this is part of a longer-term trend," he added, the account losses were "not a surprise."

To pick the 90 to 100 stocks in the portfolio, he looks at longer-term economic and demographic trends.

The amount of energy sent our way by the sun varies in 11-year cycles, and often displays longer-term trends.

The longer-term trend is even more disturbing than the monthly snapshot.

Also, we must not get bogged down dealing with longer-term trends.

The remaining part of the 21st century and longer-term trends are researched in futures studies.

But he added that "there are also larger, longer-term trends."

A new intellectual independence can also be correlated with longer-term social trends.

In some countries, the longer-term trend is most important.

At first it seemed as if the 1992 campaign might reverse longer-term trends towards greater press partisanship.