Sentence examples for were counts from inspiring English sources
verb
To recite numbers in sequence.
- The psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens.
By ad 1150 scions of the family were counts and bailiwicks (land agents) for the bishops of Trent.
Also dropped were counts that dealt with e-mailing information about detainees and committing espionage by transmitting information to unauthorized recipients.
Similarly, the characters are given a modern makeover; where once were counts, poets and chambermaids, there are now rock stars, playwrights and secretaries.
We use a negative binomial regression to estimate our model, since our outcomes were counts and their distribution was more overdispersed than would be found in a Poisson distribution [21].
In assessing the effect of grazing intensity on herbaceous and woody species abundance (because species abundance were counts), a log-linear regression was applied; this is because both herbaceous and woody species data were count data and best analysed using a log-linear Poisson regression.
Because the data were counts of predation events over fixed units of time and space, consumption was initially modelled by a Poisson sampling distribution around the fitted function.
They were counting votes.
They were counting us out.
