Number and frequency
Exercise 46.3
Use words from the box to complete the news reports. You may use the words more than once.
Following (1) criticism
of the government’s environmental policy
and a recent report showing a
(2) in the numbers of
seabirds along the nation’s coastline, a
scheme has been announced which, it is
hoped, will result in a
(3) in the
population of birds, especially of those
(4) species which are
seriously threatened with extinction.
Unfortunately, last year’s storms did
(5) damage to homes in the
north, and the damage is still visible in many
places. One local resident complained, ‘We
(6) asking the authorities
when we will be compensated.They
(7) promising to sort it out
but then nothing happens.’There has been a
steady (8) in the number of
severe storms in the area, with an average of
two per year recorded in the 1980s and more
than five per year now.
Although only a relatively small number
of people die from (9)
diseases each year, a plan to build a research
centre into such diseases has received
(10) support from all
political parties. ‘I’m glad to say that we
have seen a steady (11)
in the incidence of these diseases,’ a medical
expert said. ‘But we must be careful. The
numbers could (12)
again if we do not continue to support
research.’
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