The bar chart below shows the number of houses built per year in two cities, Derby and Nottingham, between 2000 and 2009

The bar chart depicts the volume of accommodations that were built in two towns from 2000 to 2009. Looking from an

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perspective, the number of houses built in Derby has increased steadily over the years; meanwhile, those in Nottingham have fluctuated throughout the given period. In 2000, fewer than 50 houses were built in Derby,

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Nottingham had recorded 50 in the same year.

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, the first figure remained the same in the following year, and the second rose slightly to over 50.

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, in Derby, they started to build more houses, and from 2003 to 2007, about 110 accommodations were built in

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city each year before surging to nearly 300 in 2008, and it hit a milestone with almost 350 in 2009. In comparison, the count of newly built homes in Nottingham decreased to roughly 20 in 2002, and

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figure grew steadily in the next three years before diminishing to merely 10 in 2006.

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, it surged remarkably to just under 200 in 2007, and it fell again in 2008 prior to jumping to 250, eventually.