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 bar chart illustrates the duration of telephone calls on different sort of devices in the UK in the period between 1995 and 2002.
As can be seen from the chart, in general, national and international- fixed line and mobile followed upward trends from 1995 to 2002, while local-fixed line remained unchanged over the same period. Local telephone was the most popular mean in 1995, with over 70 billion minutes, increased subtaintially to a peak of 90 billions in 1999, before falling back to nearly the same point of the 1995-year in 2002.
For national and international-fixed line, which wa...
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Sentence: Local telephone was the most popular mean in 1995, with over 70 billion minutes, increased subtaintially to a peak of 90 billions in 1999, before falling back to nearly the same point of the 1995-year in 2002.
Error: subtaintially Suggestion: substantially
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