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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No. of Different Words: 106 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.708 4.0
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