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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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Contained in the bar chart is data pertaining to the amount of time of the UK telephone calls by three different types during
eight-year
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 period between 1995 and 2002. Units are measured in minute billions (
MB
).
Overall
, it can be seen that the
local-fixed
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line
 call had kept
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 similar point at the start and finish,
whereas
 the others had gone up throughout the timeframe.
In addition
, mobiles had a
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increase making it the biggest difference over the eight-year period. Beginning with the local-fixed
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further
 detail, it started at about 70MB in 1995,
then
 gradually increased and reached a peak at 90MB in 1999, but there was a steady drop in its figures and ended at the same point
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 the start in 2002.
Besides
,
this
 type of telephone
calls
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 was the highest figure throughout the timeframe. Moving onto two different categories in the remaining statistics, where there was
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 upward trend from 1995 to 2002. With respect to national and international-fixed
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, it was just under 40MB in 1995 and kept the second highest figure. In the following years, its time slightly rose and stopped at over 60MB in 2002. Regarding mobiles, it started at the lowest point by approximately 5MB in the first year of
this
 period. Much like national and international-fixed
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, it steadily increased in the next four years,
then
 there was a sharp rise in figure and ended at around 45MB, making it the biggest difference.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words mb, line with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "increase" was used 3 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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