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  • ...experienced a marked increase in the proportion of...
  • the others saw a corresponding decline
  • significantly/significant
  • Overall, it can be seen that
  • the majority of the income
  • In detail
  • with regard to expenditures
  • respectively
  • It is measured in percentages
  • the percentage of GDP from IT was almost twice that of the Service Industry.
  • IT remained at a higher rate throughout this time.
  • it dropped slightly from 1994 to 1996.
  • increased quite sharply
  • It is evident that
  • throughout the whole time frame.
  • followed a fairly similar pattern
  • all remaining at (均保持在)
  • approximately (大约地)
  • In contrast
  • which far exceeded that of the other
  • The graph illustrate the number of books that were loaned out (借出) from ...
  • that fiction was by far the most popular type of book.
  • which represented the highest level of borrowing of the four.
  • followed very similar patterns
  • then gradually increasing to finish at 150.
  • there are seven stages in the process, beginning with the digging up of clay and culminating in delivery.
  • To begin
  • Following this
  • In the subsequent stage
  • but much less on clothing and entertainment.
  • a quarter (1/4, 25%)
  • spend the least
  • ranging between 11% and 15%.
  • it decreased steadily to a level of 70%
  • after dipping to a low level of 40%
  • rate gradually increased to 60% by 2010
  • climbed rapidly .... it had reached 45%
  • it was very slow, rising from about 2% to around 8% over the period
  • with the remaining
  • to a lesser extent
  • A further (另外)
  • curriculum (web.课程)
  • smaller/larger proportion/share
  • twice/10 times as many as
  • there were corresponding drops in expenditure
  • the gap between them shrank to around 1%
  • While IT remained the larger of the two sectors
  • Overall, the process consists of X stages, beginning with... and ending up with... `