The table below shows how many students of a school in the UK chose to take part in four different sports between 2001 and 2011. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graph demonstrates the number of

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of a particular UK school who participated in running, basketball, swimming and football over a ten-year period from 2001 to 2011.

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, what stands out from the graph is that

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the popularity of running grew over the duration in question, and that of football remained high throughout, the number of

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interested in basketball fell sharply. Swimming figures, meanwhile, saw an increase followed by a drop. With regards to running and swimming, the starting figures were roughly identical at 18 and 20 participating

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respectively.

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the former climbed to reach 60

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in 2007 before levelling off for the remainder of the period, the latter peaked at 50

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in 2006 and

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slipped to half

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figure in 2011. Turning to the ball sports, football stayed consistently popular, with student figures remaining between 60 and 70 throughout the term. Basketball’s popularity was nearly as high as football’s in the first half of the decade studied, with the number of participating

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rising from 55 to 61, but 2006 to 2008 saw The student numbers

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21, a figure which had not changed until 2011.