IELTS Grammar: using 'see' in writing task 1

 A few people have asked me about using 'see' to describe numbers on a graph or chart. Look at the following sentence:

• In Britain, CD sales increased dramatically in the 1980s.

We can write the same sentence in various ways using 'see':

• Britain saw a dramatic increase in CD sales in the 1980s.
• The 1980s saw a dramatic increase in CD sales in Britain.
• British shops saw CD sales increase dramatically in the 1980s.