nose count


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Noun1.nose count - a periodic count of the populationnose count - a periodic count of the population  
census, nosecount
counting, enumeration, numeration, count, reckoning, tally - the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order; "the counting continued for several hours"
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How about a nose count, based on one-on-one interviews?
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Most members haven't expressed anything; when The Texas Tribune did a nose count right after the elections, calling each member to ask about speaker preferences, 119 members declined to state one.
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You'll then be just about to finish the conversation and they'll take you back to the question you asked earlier and say something like "Does a 24-hour sponsored sled dog race across the Arctic while balancing a tube of Smarties on my nose count? I only raised pounds 10,000 so didn't think you'd be interested."
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