nose count
Example Sentences
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To pull off a complete and accurate 2020 nose count, that agency has to perfect what it calls “operations and systems.”
From Science Magazine • Jul. 24, 2017
As a result, Columbia has awarded master's degrees to an impressive roster of the successful in journalism, at last nose count had produced 64 publishers, 67 editors in chief, 36 Washington correspondents, and 66 Timesmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Smaller checks are not unknown in the West, but this will be the first nationwide nose count, extending even to Canada.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Adenauer's men made a nose count of the Bundestag, they found that Jaeger could count on the votes of no coalition Deputies, as well as the big Socialist opposition, and had a clear majority.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before we left the lighted elevator car, we took a quick nose count.
From Four-Day Planet by Piper, H. Beam
