Practice Questions: The graph below shows the amount of money spent on books in Germany, France, Italy and Austria between 1995 and 2005. Summaries the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The presented bar chart illustrates how much money

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on books in 4 various European countries between 1995 and 2005 (during a decade). It is clearly seen that all regions had an upward trend;

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, Germany stood first in all times of the decade. As can be seen , Germany spent 80 million dollars in 1995 ,

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significant growth and reached 90 in 1999 , after a minimal decline between 1999 and 2003, it increased considerably and reached around 95 million dollars in 2005 which was the highest amount of money spent in that time. France ranked second with around 55 and almost 75 in 1995 and 2005, respectively with moderate growth in the whole duration.

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Italy and Austria were 50 and 30, respectively in 1995, both of them were the same in 2003 with under 60 million dollars ,

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Austria rose sharply and reached more than 70 in 2005

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Italy was about 60

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that time.