Nonetheless the Fed (more successfully than its counterparts in most advanced industrial countries) has fulfilled its official double mandate of fostering growth while preserving monetary stability – on the latter count maybe too well.
When one reporter addressed him as "Governor-elect," he said, "Governor-elect Hickenlooper — what is that, nine syllables?" His count, maybe not so off-the-cuff, was dead-on.
The doctor decides to take a blood count: maybe there is an infection we can't see?
If it's the thought that counts, maybe a sterling silver watering can for serving lemonade?
They lost the card count but, maybe, made the point that Madrid's players are too talented to simply turn games against Barça into brawls.
I counted maybe 300 people in an auditorium built for well over a thousand.
Natalie Rosenberg, his English teacher, counts maybe three like him in 22 years.
Though I counted maybe eleven reasons as to why I shouldn't jump, several of them potentially fatal or crippling, and all of them criminal, I was determined to have a stranger tie a rope around my ankles and leap off that bridge at three in the morning, as planned.
He will hear phrases like "work the count" and "patience," or maybe "see more pitches".
