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4.2. Overview
[Overall / From an overall perspective] +
Major trend:
+ there (be) an upward/increase trend in ____ / ____ see(s)/saw an upward/increase
trend
+ there (be) a downward/decrease trend in ____/ ____ see(s)/saw a
downward/decrease trend
+ there (be) a fluctuant trend in ____ / ____ illustrate(s) a wave-like movement
Outstanding features:
Highest/lowest:
* _____ (be) the most/least popular /
* _____ experience(s/d) the highest/lowest figure.
Others:
* The percentage/proportion/number/… of ____ + in ___ + double(s/d) / (be) 3, 4, 5, …
times higher/less than + the figure of that of ____
(e.g. The number of tourists in New York was three times higher than that of Canada.)
* A new category of ____ (be) shown / appear(s/ed) in the chart for (year).
4.3. Body 1
Sentence 1
4.4. Body 2
Sentence 1
The ___ year period witness(es/ed) a ___ climb/fall in the ___, which is(was) ___ in
(year 1) and ___ in (year 2).
Sentence 2
hoặc After this point, the trend jump(s/ed) / go(went) down to ____ in (year).
hoặc In the last ___ years, there (be) a wild/mild fluctuation in ___, with the highest and
lowest ratio/number shown in (year) at ____ and (year) at ____ respectively.
The table illustrates the proportion of factory staff and factories in England and
Wales over 50 years from 1851 to 1901.
Overall, the table indicates that the total number of employees witnessed a
significant drop throughout the whole period, whereas the number of factories
increased substantially over the fifty year timeframe.
Regarding employee numbers, male factory staff(=male employees) in 1851
comprised 287,100 compared to 190,000 females. The figure declined rapidly for
males in the years after 1851 dropping to a low of 31,000 in 1901. Figures in the
female category also witnessed a sharp decline dropping to 160,000 in 1861,
which was more than that of male workers at the time. By 1901 female employee
numbers were almost equal to males at 30,000. In total, the workforce figure
plummeted from 477,100 in 1851 to 61,000 by 1901.
Looking at the data for factories, these accounted for 225 in 1851. Then the
figure jumped sharply after 1861, peaking at 721 factories by 1881. In the
following 20 years numbers dropped slightly, totalling 600 factories by 1901.