Relative to the whole market, It's well known that over periods of multiple decades the market has a tendency to go up.

是和整个市场相关的对吗，我们都知道经过几十年的时间周期,市场会有上涨的倾向。

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Mr Adams has a tendency to over-argue, and his passion for Benton sometimes beggars belief.

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Of course, most conservatives might despair over the populists' tendency to embrace statist solutions to our economic problems.

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But, in truth, only Chelsea's occasional tendency to over-play and Sunderland keeper Fulop prevented this from being a cricket score.

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