These unforgiving, practically unbreakable orange rims — built so simply that there are no hooks to accommodate a net — are longstanding fixtures of the public basketball courts throughout New York City, where they play a minor, if usually overlooked, role in countless pick-up games.
Everyone from a doubting N.C.A.A. tournament selection committee to President Obama — who, like countless others, picked the Boilermakers to be upset in the first round — had persistently downgraded their chances.
Countless you-pick-em orchards, goatcheese farms and vegetable stands dot the winding back roads.
This has saved me countless delayed pick-ups from the airport.
IT three o'clock this afternoon, give or take an hour, countless employees will pick up the telephone and make a most unbusinesslike call.
But they inspired countless DJs to pick up dog-eared basement bin finds and coax endless sunshine out of scratched and smushed black wax.
We've got this far by weathering countless storms, by picking ourselves up after being knocked down, by finding chinks of light in oppressively grey skies.
The late star of countless classic westerns picked up the nickname as a small boy courtesy of firefighters in his Glendale, California home town: it was originally the name of the family dog, a huge Airedale terrier.
For a period, her sore hands picked countless grapes in the fields.
Jim Cramer has made a career out of promoting it, as have countless other stock-picking gurus since the dawn of time.
Consumers can either opt for the $500 iPad or pick from countless identical Android tablets.
