The chart below shows the total number of minutes (in billions) of telephone calls in the UK, divided into three categories, from 1995-2002
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A glance at the graph provided reveals the trend in the amount of time that the UK residents spent on three different call types over a 7-year period. Obviously, while there was a decrease in the number of local category, the other two witnessed a period of growth.
More specifically, starting at just over 70 billion minutes in 1995, the total number of minutes made locally went up gradually and hit a peak of 90 billion minutes in 1999. Afterwards, there was a fractional decline in the number and it finished at the same level as in 1995. When it comes to national and international calls a...
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Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 8.5 out of 9
Category: Excellent Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 7 10
No. of Words: 189 200
No. of Characters: 871 1000
No. of Different Words: 106 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.708 4.0
Average Word Length: 4.608 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.569 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 59 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 43 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 26 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 14 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.747 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.429 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.44 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.669 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.083 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 4