nose count
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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
Newsletters breed with such leporine rapidity that any nose count is outdated as soon as begun; in any given month, two dozen newsletters may spring into being, and a dozen others die.
From Time Magazine Archive
A quiet Administration nose count indicated that fewer than ten Senators would vote no.
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 H. Beam Piper
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