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
To his report of last spring's painstaking national nose count, he had few remarks to add.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alabama's Rains took a nose count, thought he smelled victory.
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
