I've often noticed that news media prefer vague terms like 'large, 'tiny', to numbers. I may have blogged about this before.
A couple of days ago the BBC television news reported early results of an election in Libya, saying that one group had achieved a 'landslide victory'
I checked on the BBC website and found that the 'landslide' in question amounted only to winning 39 of 80 seats filled from party lists.
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