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The first chart below gives information about the money spent by British parents on their children’s sports between 2008 and 2014. The second chart shows the number of children who participated in three sports in Britain over the same time period.

The first chart below gives information about the money spent by British parents on their children’s sports between 2008 and 2014. The second chart shows the number of children who participated in three sports in Britain over the same time period.
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The first line chart illustrates how much money was spent on
to
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the
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children
 by their parents in the United Kingdom from 2008 to 2014. The
second
 one represents the
number
 of British kids
participated
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 in football, athletics and swimming over the same period. The average monthly funding
on
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children
’s sports rose gradually from 20 pounds to over 30 pounds across the timeframe.
Similarly
, the trend of swimming
also
 increased steadily. The
number
 of
children
 who played football remained
reasonablye
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reasonably
 stable, which far
outstriped
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outstripped
outstrip
than
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that of
two
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 other sports.
In contrast
, the
number
 of
children
 who played athletics remained more or less the same till 2010 and it skyrocketed and overtook that of swimming before it receded in 2014. There were around 8 to 9
millions
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of
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young people participating in football between 2008 and 2014. The
number
 of
children
 participating in
other
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the other
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 two sports
were
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 much fewer. Comparing the
number
 of
children
 who participated in swimming in 2008 to that of 2014, it rose by 2
millions
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 in total to roughly 4
millions
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million
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 in 2014. Originally less than 1 million
of
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kids participated in athletics before 2010,
however
, it grew significantly to over 5
millions
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million
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 in 2012 before it receded slightly two years later.
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