keep tally
Example Sentences
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The third scrutator reads each name aloud, while the cardinals keep tally.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the case of ‘head-hunters’ the young men’s barracks are invariably guardhouses, at the entrance to the village, and those on guard at night keep tally of the men who leave and return.”—Op. cit., vol.
From The Bontoc Igorot by Jenks, Albert Ernest
You will have to scale every stick cut in your district and keep tally on all the lumber that is taken out.
From The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol by Theiss, Lewis E.
For this reason small gangs of concrete workers need no foreman at all, provided one of the workers is given command and required to keep tally of the batches.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers
The supercargoes, whose business it is to keep tally of the copra at three pounds a month and a percentage, are rarely in the palace; and two at least are in the other islands.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
