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The table in the above image shows the source of money for the police budget. The chart shows how it was spent. Both of these images capture data from the year 2017 to 2018.

The table in the above image shows the source of money for the police budget. The chart shows how it was spent. Both of these images capture data from the year 2017 to 2018.
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The table below illustrates the sources of
money
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 for the police
budget
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 in the years 2017 and 2018,
meanwhile
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 the pie charts compare on what features the
money
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 was spent in the same period.
Overall
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, the national government
took
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became
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 the primary source of the
budget
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,
whereas
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 the other sources
such
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 as grants took the
last
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 place.
Moreover
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, most of the
budget
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 was
expended
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spent
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 on salaries, meanwhile,
least
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the least
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 of the
money
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 was spent on technology in both periods.
Firstly
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, we can notice that the whole
budget
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 increased slightly over the given period from 304.7
million
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euros
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 in 2017 to 318.6
million
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euros
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 in 2018; the national government's invested
money
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 steadily rose from 175.5
million
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euros
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 to 177.8
million
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euros
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,
while
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 there was a noticeable increase of
budget
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 from the local taxes by over 11
million
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euros
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 over a 1-year period.
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, the police
budget
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 did not change significantly from the other sources, showing a slight growth of only 0.5
million
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euros
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: from 38
million
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 to 38.5
million
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euros
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.
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, it is noticeable that most of the expenditure was lost on salaries, 75%, in 2017, which steadily decreased to 69% after 1 year.
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 the percentage of spending
money
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 from the police
budget
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 on
the
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buildings and transport stayed the same, there was a dramatic rise in the proportion of
money
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 spent on
the
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technology from 8% in 2017 to 14% in 2018.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words money, budget, million, euros with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "slightly" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
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