The chart below shows three different crimes and the number of cases committed in 1970 and 2005 in England and Wales. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph compares the amounts of three types of crime in two British regions between 1970 and 2005.

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, it is apparent that the

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of vehicle theft was the most prevalent in the period shown, with the only exception happening in 1980 when it was overtaken by the

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of burglaries.

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, robberies on the streets were the least popular among these three crimes over 35 years. The

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of cases of car theft, starting at 0.4

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in 1970, steadily increased for the next twenty years and saw a spectacular surge during the period of 1990 to 1995, eventually peaking at 1.6

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, which was followed by a gradual drop, ending up at 1

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in 2005. It is

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worth noticing that there was an upward trend for the

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of street robberies in

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period, which grew by 0.3

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from 1970 to 2005 with negligible fluctuation. Turning to the figure for house burgling, it was half of the

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of car theft and was roughly twice as high as that of street robberies in 1970. Afterwards, an exponential increment could be seen from 1970 to 1980, when the quantity of

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type of cases reached approximately 900 thousand. Despite a wave of about 100 thousand for 2 decades, the following years witnessed an obvious downward trend in the

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of burglaries, declining to around 500 thousand in 2005.