census-taking
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Nearly half of today’s identified colonies were discovered in the last 15 years by Fretwell, who pioneered the science of penguin census-taking by satellite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
“After 200 years of census-taking and 30 census directors, I was the 31st director and the first woman, so that heightened my visibility a little,” she said in a 1993 oral history for the bureau.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2023
Strictly speaking, census-taking might have operated apart from these factors, but counting the populace has never been a simple math problem.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2022
Doctors and nurses, in Harris County and elsewhere, have begun a worrying and familiar census-taking of ventilators and personal protective equipment.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2020
"That is about as far back, I should think, as any one could go, in the way of census-taking," the boy said.
From The Boy With the U.S. Census by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
