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Arrange the following sentences in the correct order.
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A. The median case duration, however, changes only slightly.
B. The difference indicates that the original average was strongly influenced by a small number of very long cases.
C. Analysts find that several exceptionally long-running cases were completed during the earlier period.
D. A legal service reports a substantial reduction in the average time required to close cases.

Arrange the following sentences in the correct order.
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A. Analysts therefore compare journeys only at locations monitored consistently throughout the period.
B. A city's data show a sharp increase in the number of cycling journeys.
C. This makes it necessary to separate actual behavioural change from changes in the way activity is recorded.
D. During the same period, the city expanded its automated bicycle-counting network from a few central streets to many neighbourhoods.

Arrange the following sentences in the correct order.
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A. A manufacturer reports that the average weight of material used per product has fallen.
B. Sales have simultaneously shifted toward smaller models that naturally require less material.
C. Engineers therefore compare material use within each model rather than relying solely on the company-wide average.
D. This suggests that the overall decline partly reflects a shift in the kinds of products being sold.

Arrange the following sentences in the correct order.
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A. Digital borrowing is concentrated in short reference works, while printed borrowing includes many lengthy books.
B. Analysts compare return times within books of similar length and purpose.
C. Library records indicate that digital books are returned much faster than printed books.
D. The adjusted comparison reveals that much of the difference is associated with the types of books borrowed.

Arrange the following sentences in the correct order.
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A. Analysts therefore calculate output per operating hour.
B. The revised measure shows that efficiency improved, but by much less than the raw output figure implied.
C. The workshop has also extended its daily operating hours.
D. A workshop reports a large increase in the number of items produced each day.

Arrange the following sentences in the correct order.
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A. The finding prevents the researchers from attributing the entire change to the newly protected area.
B. Similar increases in some fish species are also recorded outside the reserve.
C. Fish numbers increase around a marine reserve several years after fishing restrictions are introduced.
D. During the same period, a commercially important predator declines across the wider region.

Arrange the following sentences in the correct order.
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A. The number of first-time candidates has fallen, while the proportion of repeat candidates with previous examination experience has increased.
B. An examination board reports a higher pass percentage than in the previous year.
C. The difference suggests that the overall improvement partly reflects a change in the composition of applicants.
D. Pass rates within first-time and repeat candidates are therefore examined separately.

Arrange the following sentences in the correct order.
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A. Reports show a large increase in the number of nesting sites recorded for a coastal bird.
B. Researchers separate newly surveyed locations from sites that were monitored throughout the entire period.
C. The analysis indicates that the apparent rise is much weaker when only consistently monitored locations are considered.
D. Conservation teams have also expanded their surveys into previously unmonitored stretches of coastline.

Arrange the following sentences in the correct order.
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A. Complex requests that cannot be processed automatically are now transferred to a separate specialist queue and excluded from the main statistic.
B. The result implies that much of the apparent improvement arose from excluding the most difficult transactions.
C. When analysts include those requests, the reduction in overall processing time becomes substantially smaller.
D. A bank reports that the average time needed to process customer requests has fallen after automation.

Arrange the following sentences in the correct order.
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A. The figures are based on related but conceptually different definitions of saving.
B. Two studies examining household saving report substantially different rates for the same population.
C. The discrepancy therefore cannot be resolved simply by deciding which estimate is more precise.
D. One measures the proportion of current income not spent, whereas the other includes changes in the value of certain financial assets.

Arrange the following sentences in the correct order.
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A. Recent specimens of a marine organism appear smaller on average than specimens preserved from earlier decades.
B. Museum records reveal that older collectors preferentially preserved unusually large specimens.
C. Such selective collection would make the historical sample systematically different from the population from which it came.
D. Researchers therefore hesitate to interpret the pattern as evidence of a biological shift until the sampling history is reconstructed.

Arrange the following sentences in the correct order.
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A. The proportion of borrowers classified in the lowest-risk category has increased considerably.
B. Analysts therefore calculate what the overall default rate would have been if the risk composition had remained constant.
C. A lender observes that its overall loan-default rate has fallen even though default rates within each risk category remain nearly unchanged.
D. Only after making this adjustment can changes in the underlying repayment behaviour be meaningfully assessed.

Arrange the following sentences in the correct order.
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A. Analysts therefore examine the sequence of flooding and investment rather than treating investment as an earlier cause of damage.
B. This temporal mismatch makes the simple association between the two variables difficult to interpret.
C. Much of the investment, however, was made after those districts had already experienced severe flooding.
D. Researchers find that districts with greater investment in flood protection also report greater flood damage.

Arrange the following sentences in the correct order.
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A. The reconstructed series shows that part of the apparent acceleration was introduced by the change in measurement procedure.
B. Measurements from periods in which both procedures were applied allow researchers to estimate the systematic difference between them.
C. Astronomers analysing a long observational record notice that a celestial object's measured motion appears to accelerate.
D. Midway through the record, however, the observatory adopted a different method for correcting atmospheric distortion.

Arrange the following sentences in the correct order.
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A. Further analysis shows that most of the additional wealth is concentrated among households already near the top of the distribution.
B. Average household wealth rises sharply over a decade, while median wealth changes only modestly.
C. The result cautions against interpreting the higher average as a general improvement experienced by most households.
D. The divergence between the two measures therefore contains information about how the gains were distributed.

Arrange the following sentences in the correct order.
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A. A factory's output per labour hour falls after it begins manufacturing more customised products.
B. Managers therefore compare labour requirements within comparable product categories.
C. This makes the apparent decline in productivity partly a consequence of what is being produced rather than how efficiently workers perform.
D. Customised products require substantially more labour time per unit than the standard products that previously dominated production.

Arrange the following sentences in the correct order.
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A. Scores rise by a similar amount in neighbouring districts that did not introduce the programme.
B. Such a pattern would be difficult to explain if the programme alone were responsible for the improvement.
C. Researchers therefore investigate regional changes in curriculum and examination design.
D. A district introduces a reading programme, after which children's average test scores increase.

Arrange the following sentences in the correct order.
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A. Consequently, the increase in recorded violations does not by itself establish that actual non-compliance has become more common.
B. Official records show a substantial increase in reported violations after inspections are intensified.
C. Analysts therefore distinguish changes in the number of cases from changes in the probability that a case is formally recorded.
D. More frequent inspections create additional opportunities to detect violations that previously went unnoticed.

Arrange the following sentences in the correct order.
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A. A research team initially concludes that a nocturnal species has become much more common.
B. Examination of survey logs reveals that recent field teams conducted observations for substantially longer portions of the night.
C. Researchers recalculate detections per hour during the same nighttime intervals used in the older surveys.
D. The revised estimate is therefore based on comparable observation periods rather than on the raw annual totals.

Arrange the following sentences in the correct order.
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A. Single-person households generally consume less total electricity than larger households, although their consumption per person may be higher.
B. The changing household structure can therefore lower the average per household even without conservation within comparable households.
C. Average household electricity consumption declines after a region experiences a substantial increase in the number of single-person households.
D. The observation complicates any attempt to infer changes in individual behaviour from the aggregate figure alone.