Describing trends 📉

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Sales, Profits, The marketing budget, Inflation, Interest rates, House prices
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went up/went down, increased/decreased, rose/fell, improved/got worse
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slowly/gradually/rapidly, a little/a lot, from . . . to . . , by. .%
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last year/this year, in the first quarter
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because...

➡️ Sales increased a lot last year because...