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.
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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
a peak of 90 Change the form of the verb
reach
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.
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Vocabulary: Rephrase the word "number of" in your introduction.
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Vocabulary: The word "trend" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "gradually" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "slightly" was used 2 times.
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