Reversing a decade-long trend, the proportion of money that Bankers Trust earned from interest rose last year, when compared with other sources of income.

Record highs and lows (weather) continue to occur, but the climate drives decade-long trends in their frequency.

G.M. recently acquired the Hummer brand, placing a big bet that the decade-long trend toward ever larger and more aggressive-looking sport utility vehicles would continue.

In 2000, the last year studied, Americans continued a decade-long trend of making more visits to doctors.

Continuing a decade-long trend, Russia's population fell by 781,500 people from January through November of last year to a total of 144 million, the government said.

This year a record 46 countries have entered films in the foreign-language category, building on a decade-long trend.

The random encounters of Chatroulette buck a decade-long trend that has made the Internet feel progressively more ordered.

Fidelity has filled three top positions with hedge fund veterans recently, reversing a decade-long trend.

In 2007, a decade-long trend reversed and the overall number of illegal immigrants fell below the number of legal permanent resident immigrants.

But the fish count slipped to a paltry 39 in 1983, starting a vexing decade-long trend.