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The chart below shows the total number of minutes and billions of calls in the UK divided into three categories from 1995-2002

The bar graph presents key information about the number of
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 of telephone calls in England, Wales and Scotland, separated into 3 types, during 1995 to 2000
Overall
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It
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 is clear from the chart that
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the local-fixed
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line
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 is the highest time consumer throughout the entire period.
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, both national and
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international fixed-line
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line
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,
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 and
mobiles
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mobile
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 numbers of
minutes
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 continued to rise year by year until 2002,
whereas
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local-fixed
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line
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 started and kept dropping by the year 2000 to 2002 after the great increase it had.
According to
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what
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the graph shown, the amount of
spent
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minutes spent
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minutes
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in
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line
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 witnessed a peak from nearly 73
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minutes
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 to 90
billion
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minutes
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, from 1995 to 1999, respectively;
while
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 in 2000,
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the number
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 of
minutes
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 started to fall continuously until it reached nearly 75
billion
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minutes
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. In terms of the growing amount of time spent
while
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 using national and
international-fixed
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international fixed-line
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line
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 and
mobiles
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mobile
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.
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phones.
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 Mobiles
where
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were
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 the least used in early years,
it reached
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 almost 5
billion
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minutes
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 in 1995, but kept on growing through the following years until
2002
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2002,
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 by 45
billion
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minutes
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. National and international- fixed
line
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, began with almost 40billion
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 consumed in 1995, and ended with an increase
,
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apply
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by
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of
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 nearly 62
billion
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minutes
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 in 2002.

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Sentences: Add more complex sentences.
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "while".
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Vocabulary: Replace the words minutes, line, billion with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "graph" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "increase" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "reached" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "nearly" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "almost" was used 2 times.
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