History counts its skeletons in round numbers.
If history counts, Clark should win the 800 in a breeze.
The sales history counts, but recent sales are weighted more heavily.
The professor of Scottish history counts several senior figures on both sides among his friends, including Gordon Brown, the former Labour prime minister and now a driving force of the no campaign.
Simeon Bankoff, who as executive director of the Historic Districts Council knows a thing or two about the allure of history, counts himself fortunate to have a window in the broom closet of his 1905 brick row house in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn.
But, while most of those predicting promotion for Leicester City this season will probably summon a shrug or a chuckle if it all goes horribly wrong, I certainly will not be disappointed if recent history counts for nothing after a month of the new Championship campaign at the King Power Stadium.
The BBC replayed the Korean commentators' reactions, and those sounds of ecstasy coupled with the winning strikers attempts not to cry, summed up the joy of this World Cup - that history counts for nothing if you don't respect your opponents on the day.
He observed that history counts for little in the finance world, and that "past experience, to the extent that it is part of memory at all, is dismissed as the primitive refuge of those who do not have the insight to appreciate the incredible wonders of the present".
We thought history counted for something in domestic U.S. politics.
