“a certain trend toward significance”

Despite that correlation did not reach statistical significance, a certain trend toward significance was evident, at least as far as PTS was concerned.

Women and the patients who received chemotherapy had a longer survival with a certain trend toward significance statistical (Table 2 ).

The probability of death was significantly higher in samples with lower expression of LAMA2 although observed differences were not statistically significant (p = 0.069) but revealed a certain trend toward significance ( Fig 3C , Table 4 ).