UK Telephone calls, by category, 1995-2002
The chart illustrates how many billion minutes of telephone calls were made by the people in the UK, on three call types (local – fixed line, national and international – fixed line, mobiles (all calls)) over the period of 1995-2002.
Overall, the UK people spent the most time on local call and the least time on mobile call, while national and international call was in the middle, throughout the period under review.
The UK people spent slightly over 70 billion minutes on local call in 1995, which then steadily increased to around 90 billion minutes in 1999. After that, the figure dropped continuously to more or less 70 billion minutes in 2002.
Regarding national and international call, the British people spent less than 40 billion minutes in 1995. The figure increased generally and reached approximately 60 billion minutes in 2002.
For mobile call, the people in the UK spent little time (just above 0) in 1995. The figure increased gradually to around 10 billion minutes in 1999. A boost was shown since then and arrived at about 40 billion minutes in 2001. Then, the upward trend slowed down and reached well above 40 billion minutes in 2002.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 6.5 out of 9
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 10 10
No. of Words: 195 200
No. of Characters: 929 1000
No. of Different Words: 93 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.737 4.0
Average Word Length: 4.764 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.436 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 64 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 45 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 20 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 15 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.617 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.51 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.735 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.171 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 4