The bar chart below shows the total number of minutes (in billions) of telephone calls in Australia, divided into three categories, from 2001- 2008 Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The bar chart below shows the total number of minutes (in billions) of telephone calls in Australia, divided into three categories, from 2001- 2008

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

Write at least 150 words.
The bar diagram illustrates the total number of
minutes
spent on telephone calls in Australia from the year 2001 to 2008, where the calls are categorised into three groups, local, national and international, and mobile. Units are measured in billions of
minutes
.
Overall
, though the gap between the
time
spent on local calls and other modes of telecommunication kept falling over
time
, annual used
minutes
on local calls always remained the highest throughout the
period
. Meanwhile,
time
spent on both national & international and mobiles continued increasing consistently, but the local call
time
started declining gradually from the middle of
this
seven-year range The local call
time
experienced the highest trend throughout the
period
, starting from 72
billion
minutes
in 2001 to
reaching
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a peak of 90
billion
minutes
by 2005,
this
trend
then
slipped back to 72
billion
minutes
in 2008. As for national and international the popularity of these types of calls increased slightly, beginning from 38
billion
minutes
to finishing at 61
billion
minutes
by the end of the
period
.
On the other hand
, mobile calls witnessed a slight growth
initially
, beginning the
period
with 2
billion
minutes
merely. Having experienced a gradual increase until 2005 with around 12
billion
minutes
, mobile call
minutes
then
rocketed to 46
billion
minutes
by the end of
this
period
.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words minutes, time, period, billion with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Rephrase the word "number of" in your introduction.
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Vocabulary: The word "gradually" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "slightly" was used 2 times.

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