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Discover LudwigThe phrase "actual count" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the precise number of items, people, or occurrences in a specific context.
Example: "After reviewing the inventory, we found that the actual count of products in stock was lower than expected."
Alternatives: "true number" or "exact tally".
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One answer lasted, by actual count, 10 minutes and 55 seconds.
It was uncer tain whether the actual count was 300 or 298.
The HCAI is an estimate of potential loan defaults, not an actual count.
The actual count may be higher because schools sometimes fail to report girls playing on boys teams.
Republicans, for their part, argue that statistical sampling is unreliable and that the Constitution mandates an actual count.
That means the figure the government has been repeating for months is several times the actual count.
Many experts say that sampling will be more accurate than an actual count because millions of people are missed or refuse to be counted.
The Toronto International Film Festival turns 25 this year, having shown 5,790 features and shorts, by actual count, since its inception in 1976.
(Isabelle Huppert got through her first couple of dozen movies with, by actual count, two facial expressions -- neither a happy one).
It is barely past noon and George Burns is (by actual count) on his seventh cigar of the day and (by modest estimate) his 150th joke.
New Jersey's estimated population of 8,143,412 -- up 5.1percentt from the actual count of 1990 -- means the state's total of 13 districts will not change, said Kim Brace, the company president.
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