Here are some good collocations and phrases from the sample answer that I shared last week.
Remember: a collocation is a group of words that are often used (and work well) together e.g. increased significantly, export earnings, textile industry.
- a country's export earnings
- export revenues
- income from
- earnings from
- the highest earning exports
- it is noticeable that
- five product categories
- over the period shown
- the textile industry
- saw the most significant growth in
- rose from... to...
- which was an increase of
- reached a similar level
- went up by... to approximately...
- there was a ...% increase in
- rising from roughly... to...
- there was almost no change in
- the amount of money earned
- which remained at just over
- decline in income
- fell by ...% to...
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https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-the-world-passed-a-carbon-threshold-400ppm-and-why-it-matters
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