Sentence examples for taking a census from inspiring English sources

Nealson was curious: were the microbes somehow taking a census of themselves?

The law actually forbids taking a census according to ethnic or racial categories.

But there has been almost no progress toward setting up an election commission, let alone taking a census.

During the summer months, Fraser and his fellow graduate students travelled from island to island, taking a census of Adélie-penguin rookeries.

But this week, the most powerful cleric in Iraqi, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, said he opposed the plan, sticking by a longstanding demand for direct elections of a new government -- a process likely to take longer because it would first require the complicated tasks of taking a census and drafting a constitution.

In short, it's looking for big ideas, such as taking a census of all the cells in the brain, even if there's little data so far on how to accomplish them.

In 1257 the Mongols, in order to levy taxes, took a census in most of Russia.

Writer decided to take a census of the squirrels in the entire Park.

The idea is to take a census of what microbial species are present.

Fewer than half of births are recorded; some countries have not taken a census in several decades.

Together, they took a census in Cange, to find out how people lived and what was killing them.