The bar chart below shows the hours per week that teenagers spend doing certain activities in Chester from 2002 to 2007.

The bar chart illustrates the trend in the amounts of time spent by Chester adolescents
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participating in seven particular activities over a six-year period from 2002 to 2007. The data was measured in the number of
hours
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per
week
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.
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, it can be seen that watching television was always the most popular activity,
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the least time was recorded in bowling. That routine and two others, going to pubs/discos and
shopping
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shopping,
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showed
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significant increase in the amount of time teenagers spent on them, in stark contrast to the four remaining activities, except for watching DVDs
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, which
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fluctuated. Teenagers spent 25
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each
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on
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watching TV in 2002
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, which
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roughly increased to almost 40
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in 2007. Both going to pubs/discos and shopping were spent about seven
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per
week
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in 2001
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, and
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much higher in the final year of the period, 15
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on shopping and 17
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on the remaining routine.
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was
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spent more than 12
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in 2002, it declined consistently to 7
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in 2007. Doing sports fell
down through
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the surveyed period , especially in
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the final
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two years, from 10
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in the first year to approximately 2
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at the end
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. Bowling was just under 5
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throughout
this
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seven-year survey and eventually finished in less than one hour per
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. The number of
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teenagers engaged in watching DVDs started with about 11
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in 2002 and reached the peak at a higher 17
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in 2004 before the dramatic drop to 10
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in the final year.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words hours, week with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "amounts" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "increase" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "about" was used 2 times.
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