Sentence examples for it is like counting from inspiring English sources

It is like counting beans".

It is like counting sheep.

It is like counting sheep just before your heavy eyes fade into your suspended consciousness.

Counting cars in a procession is dangerous because it's like counting the days till your own death.

Gauging its spread is like counting the rings in the core of a tree: if it looks as if he has broken it one more time, you know you're catching something newish.

Others point out that counting on budget surpluses to pay for tax cuts is like counting on the blizzard that never arrived in Washington this week.

The way Hevesi does the math is like counting strikes, but not balls.

Looking only at exports is like counting only the runs by the home team.

As one marine expert famously quipped, counting fish is like counting trees, except "the trees are invisible and keep moving around".

This is like counting to ten, waiting to speak before you act.

It would be like counting up the least visible bits of a perceptible object.