The bar chart below shows the number of houses built per year in two cities, Derby and Nottingham, between 2000 and 2009

The bar chart below shows the number of houses built per year in two cities, Derby and Nottingham, between 2000 and 2009
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The bar graph compares two cities in terms of the quantities of houses built each year over the period of 10 years, starting from 2000.
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, both cities saw an upward trend in the number of houses built.
Additionally
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, at the beginning of the period, more houses were built in Nottingham than in Derby,
while
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by the end, the opposite was true. In 2000, the number of newly built
homes
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in Derby was around 50.
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figure rose steadily to about 125
homes
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in the next 3 years,
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remained the same till 2005, before witnessing a dramatic increase and picking at Nottingham city,
however
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, followed a rather different pattern. Between 2000 to 2005 the number of new
homes
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hovered around 50 before dropping to almost 0 in 2006. A remarkable increase of about 200 was seen in 2007.
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figure plummeted the next year to almost 0 again before surging to 250 new
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.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words homes with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "figure" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "increase" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "almost" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "about" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "around" was used 2 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • bar chart
  • number of houses built
  • per year
  • cities
  • Derby
  • Nottingham
  • between
  • comparison
  • 10-year period
  • year-wise
  • analyze
  • compare
  • total
  • over
  • closing statement
  • introduction
  • overview
  • summarize
  • main points
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