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What trends have occured at Selwood Ltd. in recent years?

Consider turnover, profits, number of employees, range of products, raw material prices, prices of products, volume of production, and staff working hours.

Figure 2.1.10a: The number of lorries (US: trucks) on motorways (US: freeways) is increasing all over the world. Is transporting products with trucks the cheapest way to do it?

Take care when using adjectives and adverbs. For example: There was a rapid increase in raw material price. Prices of products rose rapidly. Other adjectives and adverbs which describe a fast, medium or slow speed or rate of change: sudden/suddenly, sharp/sharply, fast/fast, steady/steadily, slow/slowly, gradual/gradually.

Sizes of large, medium or small changes could be described as dramatic/dramatically, considerable/considerably, substantial/substantially, noticeable/noticeably, significant/significantly, slight/slightly, negligible/ negligibly. [8]