Review "Describing trends"

• 1: increased, rose, climbed, went up, grew, improved
• 2: decreased, dropped, diminished, declined, fell, reduced, shrank
• 3:boomed, leaped, surged, rocketed
• 4: peaked at
• 7:plunged, slumped, dove, plummeted
• 5: did not change, remained steady, stayed constant, stabilized at, plateaued at, leveled out,..
• 6: fluctuated

Note: S+ V + by/at

There be a/an + N + of/in