"not counting weekends" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to indicate that you're not counting certain days in your calculations. For example, "We need to finish this project in 15 days, not counting weekends."
He may claim to be on the side of the poor but he has a different teaspoon for EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK if you don't count weekends".
He called it "our first vacation in 12 years" — apparently not counting numerous weekends over that period spent at his vacation home in Bermuda.
But I'm definitely not counting this weekend out".
We're not counting dollars this weekend".
The last three years, not counting this past weekend, the film industry's box-office totals were down an average of 16percentt during Super Bowl weekend, compared with the preceding weekends, according to ACNielsen EDI.
Not counting those evenings and weekends, the total cost of building The Economist's first website came to $120 mostly spent on getting graphics scanned at Kinko's.
At the Met this season, the top price for prime seats in the front rows of the parquet section is $160, $195 on weekends (not counting a limited number of box seats, largely unavailable to the public, that go for $280).
Nascar officials estimate that they would use a track in New York City on two to four weekends a year, not counting trials or some other smaller events.
After much speculation about who would be behind "the dress", pictures of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's nuptials (not counting those released intermittently throughout the weekend via – what else – selfies), have only just officially been released.
By comparison, the Zone-h attributes 313 sites to Eboz, not counting the 284 from over the weekend.
