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he percentage of people travel by bus in UK. To that extent do you agree with this statement?

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Introduction
The
given
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table chart illustrates the
numbers
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number
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 of
people
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 who used the
bus
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 for travelling in the United Kingdom from the
year
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 2009 to 2011. Given data is calibrated in
percentage
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.
Body paragraph 1
Overall
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, for all the years
maximum
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a maximum
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 number of pupils, preferred buses for shopping purposes and
lesser
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a lesser
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 number of
people
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 took
this
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 means of transportation for going to work.
Body paragraph 2
In 2009, 65%
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of people's
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people's
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people
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 took
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bus
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a bus
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 for shopping, but
this
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percentage
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 dropped to 56% in the
year
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 2010 and later
on
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this
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percentage
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 again fell to 51%. But,
still
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still,
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 more than half
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people
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of people
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 preferred buses for shopping
purpose
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purposes
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 in all the given years. Only 5%
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people
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of people
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 took
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bus
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a bus
the bus
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for going
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to go
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 to work in the
year
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 2009 and again
this
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percentage
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 decreased from 2% in the
year
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 2010 to 0%
at the end
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 of the
year
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.
Conclusion
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Percentage
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The percentage
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 of
people
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travelled
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travelling
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 by
bus
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 for study and day
tour
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tours
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 increased from 4% to 9% and 7% to 12% respectively from the
year
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 2009 to
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year
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the year
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 2011. In the
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year
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years
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 2009 and 2010, 19%
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people
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of people
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 took
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bus
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the bus
a bus
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 in order to
visiting
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visit
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 their
friends
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friend's
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 homes, but later on
this
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percentage
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 increased by 4% and reached 23%.

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