The bar chart below shows the number of houses built per year in two cities, Derby and Nottingham, Between 2000 and 2009. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below. You should write at least 150 words.

The graph compares two cities in England namely

Derby

and

Nottingham

in terms of the

number

of

houses

built each year, from 2000 to 2009. From an

overall

perspective, it is evident that both sets of

figures

for

Derby

and

Nottingham

witnessed an upward trend over the ten-year period.

However

,

while

the

number

of

houses

built each year in

Derby

either increased or stayed the same, the

figures

for

Nottingham

saw greater fluctuations. It can be seen from the graph that in 2000, the

number

of newly built homes in

Derby

was just under 50, and steadily increased over the next three years to reach around 125

houses

in 2003. The

figures

then

remained the same for the next four years before dramatically increasing in 2008 and 2009, to reach a figure of approximately 350 homes by the end of the period.

However

, the

figures

for

Nottingham

followed a rather different pattern. Between 2000 and 2005 the

figures

for newly built homes fluctuated around 50, before dropping to almost 0 in 2006. A large increase of almost 200 newly built

houses

was seen in 2007, but the figure

then

once again dropped to around 10

houses

in 2008. 2009 witnessed another surge in the

number

of new

houses

, with the fig