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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 1995-2002. Summarise the information by selecting a reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant

The chart below shows the total number of minutes (in billions) of telephone calls in the UK, divided into three categories, from 1995-2002. Summarise the information by selecting a reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant
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The table illustrates the total count of minutes with
billions
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 of telephone calls in the UK, which point out in three lines (local-fixed
line
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, National and international-fixed
line
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, mobiles-all calls), between 1995 and 2002. Looking from an
overall
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 perspective, at the onset
it is clear that
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 national and international-fixed lines and mobile usage were in an upward trend,
while
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 local-fixed
line
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 calls
depicted
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were depicted
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 in a variation in 1995-2002 years. As can be seen from the graph, national and international-fixed
line
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 calls were slowly climbing, starting with nearly 40
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billions
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billion
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 calls in a
minute
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 in 1995, and ending with 60
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billions
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billion
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 calls in a
minute
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 in 2002.
Whereas
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 Mobiles calls
initially
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 were done
the
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apply
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less than 5
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billions
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billion
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 in a
minute
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, the count of
this
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were skyrocketing
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skyrocketed
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 in
following
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the following
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 years,
and
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apply
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reaching almost 45
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billions
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billion
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 in a
minute
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 in 2002. Local fixed-
line
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 calls, which were more than 70
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billions
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billion
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 in a
minute
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 at the beginning, were gradually rising until 1999 and
hited
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 a high of, nearly 90
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billions
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billion
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. After 1999,
such
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 type calls were significantly decreasing until 2002,
reached
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a
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the
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 same count in a
minute
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, nearly more than 70 billion in 2002.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words billions, line, minute with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "nearly" was used 3 times.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • total number of minutes
  • telephone calls
  • categories
  • local – fixed line
  • national and international – fixed line
  • mobiles
  • general trend
  • yearly totals
  • significant changes
  • milestones
  • data
  • rise significantly
  • decline
  • steady increase
  • fluctuate
  • peak
  • exponential growth
  • over the period
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