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The chart below shows the total number of minutes(in billions) of telephone calls in the UK ,divided into three categories from 1995 to 2002.

The chart below shows the total number of minutes(in billions) of telephone calls in the UK ,divided into three categories from 1995 to 2002.
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The bar chart illustrates the sum of phone calls which Britain has taken from 1995 to 2002.
This
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 has split as local-fixed
lines
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, National and International
lines
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 and Mobiles (all calls), and
minutes
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 of calls presented in billions.
Overall
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, it can be seen that the local fixed line carried the highest total number of
minutes
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 spent on phone calls
while
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 the least usage of calls was presented in mobile calls.
Whereas
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, the spent
minutes
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 on National and international calls and mobile calls increased throughout the
years
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 when local fixed line calls dropped down in the
last
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 three
years
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. The total sum of
minutes
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 spent on local fixed
lines
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 considerably increased in the first five
years
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, in 1995 to approximately 73
billion
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, and peaked at 90
billion
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 in 1999.
However
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, the figure has decreased from 2000-2002, respectively 85 , 80 and 73
billion
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.
On the other hand
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, it can be noticed that the National and international calls through fixed
lines
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as well as
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 mobile calls continuously increased in the given period of time.
According to
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 the data given, there were 3
billion
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 mobile call users in 1995,
this
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 figure significantly increased, and in 2002 spending time on
this
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 has doubled compared to 1995.
Similarly
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, the total number of
minutes
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 spent by Britans on domestic and foreign calls started at over 37
billion
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 and
this
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 went up in the first 4
years
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 to over 40
billion
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 and reached 60
billion
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 in the final year.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words lines, minutes, years, billion with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "figure" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "give" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "presented" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 4 times.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • total number
  • minutes
  • telephone calls
  • UK
  • divided into
  • categories
  • from
  • to
  • overall
  • increased significantly
  • local fixed-line calls
  • accounted for
  • largest proportion
  • throughout
  • period
  • international calls
  • highest rate of growth
  • experiencing
  • sharp increase
  • national long-distance calls
  • remained relatively stable
  • slight decline
  • towards
  • end
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