What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up when economic growth and electricity turn a boring wash day into an intellectual day of reading.

It's almost as if somebody came into your home and rewired your walls so that the next time you turned on the light switch, the toilet flushed three doors down, or your dishwasher went on, or your computer monitor turned off.

We've seen the creation of small computers in the '70s and early '80s, and who would have thought back then that every single person would not have just one computer but probably 20, in your home, and in not just your P.C. but in every device in your washing machine, your cell phone.

They're all big.

Big mistake.

A huge loss.

And they're nice big pages too.

It's a huge list.

It was a very big room.

These dogs are big.

My family is not very large.

He talks too fast.

It's very big.

I have a big family.

New York is a big city.

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The stakes are high.

The response has been overwhelming.

We make a decision it's that big, even though it's not that big.

Significant benefits of scale (large power and mechanical systems) result in large colocation facilities, typically 4500 to 9500 square metres (roughly 50,000 to 100,000 square feet).

It's a big deal. It sounds big, it sounds important, it sounds solid. It sounds American. Ballsy, serious, male.

Countries with great demographic potential therefore inherently have great Olympic potential.

But I feel that would be a huge loss, one I could live with, but still huge.

Salo meant before a great island, nowadays it means a great forest area.

In industries whose operations involve the exchange of large data files, broadband is particularly important.

MA Pretty big.

John inherited a large fortune.

Here's a big map of Germany.

There is a big market for coffee.

I met an old woman.

I live in a big city.

China is a huge country.

My room isn't very big.

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So much information to consider.

On the TV we are big in numbers.

Kyoto is not as large as Osaka.

We are facing a violent crisis.

Tom runs very fast.

Tom swims very fast.

The world's expectations are high.

Aid has increased significantly.

It features Carey in a large cathedral, where she meditates and sings by a large carved window.

Major improvements have been made in the situation of young women and young men in many areas, but we are still facing great challenges.