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 and 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 and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The chart illustrates the total number of
minutes
of telephone calls in the UK, which are divided into three categories from the
year
1995 to 2002. The first
category
is the local
category
. The local
category
experienced an
increase
in the
year
1995 to 1999, it went up from 71
billion
minutes
to 90
billion
minutes
but it experienced a decrease in the
year
2000 to 2002, it went down from 88
billion
minutes
to 71
billion
minutes
. The second
category
is the national and international
category
, which experienced a stable
increase
from the
year
1995 to 2002, which increased by a total of 21
billion
minutes
from 1995 to 2002. The final
category
is the mobile
category
.
This
category
experienced a drastic
increase
from the
year
1995
to
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2002, in the
year
1995 the mobile
category
only had around 3
billion
minutes
but in the
year
2002, it went up to approximately 48
billion
minutes
.
This
category
had its highest
increase
in
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the
year
2000 to the
year
2001, where the
minutes
increased from 22
billion
minutes
in the
year
2000 and increased to 39
billion
minutes
in the
year
2001. In conclusion, The highest total number of
minutes
from the three categories in the
year
1995 to 2002 is the local
category
,
while
the lowest of the three categories is the mobile
category
.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words minutes, year, category, increase, billion with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "went up" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "increase" was used 7 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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