22 the percentage of ...is sightly large than that of.

23 there is not a great deal of differece between ...and ...

24 the graphs show a three fold increase in the number of ...

25 ...decreased year by year while ...increased steadily.

26 there is an upward trend in the number of ...

27 a considerable increase occurred from ...to ...

28 from ...to ...the rate of decrease slow down.

29 from this year on,there was a gradual declinereduction in the ...reaching a figure of.

30 be similar to ...be the same as

31 there are a lot similarities between ...and ...

32 the difference between X and Y lies in ...