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The following bar graph displays the number of
hours
 per
week
 spent doing different types of activities by teenagers in Chester from 2002 to 2007. Overall, teenagers spent the maximum amount of time watching television and minimum going bowling throughout the given period. While the amount of time spent watching television, going to pubs/discos and shopping
increase
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, that spent doing homework, sports, and bowling
decreased
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.
To begin
 with, teenagers spent 5-10
hours
 per
week
 going to pubs/discos(2002-2003) and 25
hours
 watching television.
This
 value rose to ~17 for the former, and for the latter, it became ~37.
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 trend was seen in
case
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 of shopping. For
this
 activity, the number of
hours
 began at slightly more than 5 per
week
 and ended at 15 per
week
 in 2007.
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 trend was observed for activities like doing homework, doing sports, and bowling. For homework and sports, the values started at 17 and 10
hours
 per
week
 respectively and
then
 decreased steadily to become slightly more than 5 and 0 respectively in 2007. The number of
hours
 spent every
week
 watching DVDs was the same in 2002 and 2007,
although
 it rose up slightly in the middle years.
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