The phrase "a mere counting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize that something is simply a count or tally, often implying that it lacks significance or depth.
Example: "In the end, the results were just a mere counting of votes, without any real analysis of the issues at hand."
Alternatives: "just a simple count" or "only a basic tally".
There is more to it than a mere counting of teeth shown by politicians, statesmen, & ex-statesmen on the front pages of the local newspapers.
To give an impression of how this measure yields different results than a mere counting of contacts in a given time period, consultation behaviour of exemplary patients is shown in Figure 1.
Using the ICI as a new measure for identifying frequent attenders had the advantage of directly retaining more of relevant information which is in the original data than a mere counting of contacts and then relating the results to a general time period which has to be defined arbitrarily.
Some authors [ 45] have argued that mere counting is sufficient to estimate the relative importance of a motif in a network.
Results for haplotype number determination, by mere counting in Arlequin, gave more than 2 haplotypes in 70% of the cases for assumed diploid species.
Our current model is simplistic: it makes use of a mere frequency count of the geographic locations of tweets to assign individuals to a home and work location.
Despite his so-called reign of terror, he was charged with a mere three counts of second-degree burglary on Wednesday as part of a plea deal (and because of statutes of limitations).
Its simplicity as a mere joint count or in the context of DASs has also led to acceptance in several of the contemporary trials [ 11, 25], but it is especially employed in observational studies in which assessment times become a logistic challenge as patients are often seen in routine clinical practice.
While these effect estimates not necessarily represent causal effects, they are a marked improvement over mere counts.
The authors demonstrated that the mere count of tweets mentioning a certain party reflects the election outcome, while the sentiment of Twitter messages closely corresponds to the offline political landscape.
Our interpretation revealed how mental and physical multimorbidity is experienced as moments of complexity rather than mere counts of illnesses.
