… can be expressed more simply as …

… is or was determined as follows:

… is or was measured by …

… is or was calculated as follows:

… is or was calculated by …

where …

is the …

represents

denotes

only half of …

over half of …

the ratio of … to …

expressed as a percentage of …

The proportion of … ranged from … to …

ranging from … to …

… ranked in order of …

… is proportional to …

… was significantly higher in … than in …

… was significantly lower in …

… peaked at …

… was higher than expected

… was lower than expected

the expected number of …

items 1 to 5 show …

For the sake of clarity or brevity, we have omitted …

supplementary data can be obtained from the authors

Figures, tables and graphs

table X shows …

figure X illustrates …

as seen in figure X

as shown in the table above or below

examples of … are shown in figure or table X

The image shows that …

The figures, data etc. …

… are given above

… are presented below

… are shown in table X

… are listed above or below

… are summarized US and GB or summarised GB in figure or table X

… are illustrated in figure X

… are illustrated in the figure, graph or table above or below

… are shown in the graph above or below

… are shown in brackets or parentheses

… are given in the appendix

Figure X shows …

… the size of …

… the level of …

… the extent of …

… the effect of …

… the rate of …

… the concentration of …

… the distribution of …

All values are given as …

each column represents …

The shaded area represents …

… is shown superimposed on …

… based on the data given in table etc. X

Values in brackets or parentheses are …

An alternative way of presenting … is to …

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