The graph below gives information about U.S government spending on research between 1980 and 2008
This
graph depicts the US government's spending on research on 5 categories over 28 years.
Overall
, this
figure experienced an upward trend. While
there was a significant change in health, the opposite could be seen in the remainders.
Standing at 8 billion
, most of the money was invested in health in 1980, whereas
the least belonged to energy with only 3 billion
. After
this
number slightly decreased by 7 billion
in 1984, it rocked and hit its highest point at 21 billion
in 2004 then
declined moderately by 19 billion
in 2008. Similarly
, before moderately increasing to 6 billion
at the end
of the observed period, the amount of budget for energy remained stable at 3 billion
over 12 years.
On the other hand
, beginning with 7 billion
, others and space shared the same budget, in 1980, these
numbers grew unevenly from 1998 to 2000. After experiencing the same trend, other and space remained stable in 2008, at 10 and 7 respectively.Correct word choice
and these
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Vocabulary: The word "moderately" was used 2 times.
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