The line graph illustrates the amount of visitor spend for 
visitors
 to New Zealand from 5 Use synonyms
countries
 over a period of eighteen years between 1996 and 2014.
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Overall
, during Linking Words
this
 eighteen-year period, Australia remained the biggest spenders among Linking Words
visitors
, with all four Use synonyms
countries
 spending much less on them.
In 1996 China spent the least amount of money Use synonyms
for
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on
visitors
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while
 Japan and the UK spent about as much as each other. Linking Words
However
, by 2004, the gap in spending between these two Linking Words
countries
 had widened and considerably more money was spent in the USA than in Japan.
As can be seen from the graph, the amount of Use synonyms
visitors
 spent increased between 2004 and 2008 in three Use synonyms
countries
 but dropped dramatically in Japan and Use synonyms
In 
China. The period between 2008 and 2010 saw a sharp growth.Change preposition
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