How to Use head count in a Sentence
head count
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Chefs are given a head count at the beginning of the evening, at peak time and near the end of dinner.
—Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
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Local officials have been unable to obtain passenger data from ICE, not even a head count.
—Mckenzie Funk, ProPublica, 8 Mar. 2024
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The company is not adding to its head count in order to run the facility.
—Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2023
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Meet the women of the 118th Congress The presence of more women on Capitol Hill has affected more than the head count.
—USA Today, 17 Mar. 2023
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Some crew members also did a head count for their sections, but did not tally the numbers up across the aircraft.
—Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
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By contrast, the shelter count is a head count gathered directly from the shelters.
—Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
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Soon after a company decides to cut its head count, the debate begins: Who should go?
—Chip Cutter, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2023
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The DeSantis campaign had swelled to more than 90 staff members in its first two months—meaning these recent cuts amount to more than a third of the total head count.
—Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 25 July 2023
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His escape went undetected for more than an hour until guards took a head count.
—Maryclaire Dale and Marc Levy, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Sep. 2023
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It should be noted that when the event is at a restaurant, or catered, as a wedding may be, some people make the mistake of thinking a head count is not important.
—Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
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Avianca's employee head count will grow by some 1,200, Neuhaser added.
—Fox News, 7 Sep. 2023
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About six dozen smaller cities, towns and villages have challenged their head count through two Census Bureau programs.
—Mike Schneider, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
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About six dozen smaller cities, towns, and villages have challenged their head count through two Census Bureau programs.
—Mike Schneider, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Feb. 2023
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The operator of the USD Coin stablecoin plans to boost head count by up to 25% this year as many other crypto businesses cut staff.
—Wsj Staff, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2023
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This year's freshman head count is similar to last year's, although transfer students are down 4%.
—Ryan Anderson, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2023
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Circle, operator of USD Coin, plans to boost head count by up to 25% this year as many other crypto businesses cut staff.
—WSJ, 24 Feb. 2023
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The company said its head count reductions have stemmed from less hiring and attrition.
—Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2023
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The 2020 census was the first time in the nation’s once-a-decade head count that administrative records were used to fill in gaps about households with missing information.
—Mark Schneider, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2023
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Cavalcante was gone for nearly an hour before his absence was noticed during a head count.
—Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
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Students' semester credit hours this fall are up 1%, although head count is down 1%, according to UALR.
—Ryan Anderson, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2023
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As a result, payments providers are scrutinizing budgets, and some have reduced head count.
—Greg Cohen, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
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McKinsey is also reducing head count by about 2,000 jobs, one of its biggest culls ever.
—Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2023
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During a routine head count about 7:15 p.m. Monday, authorities discovered that the inmates were not in their cell.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
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The technology platforms are still a way off to really reduce the head count dramatically.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
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Meaningless meetings, unstructured time, and management by head count can be major sources of frustration, says Farage.
—Lisa Conn, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
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Despite the lower student head count, few empty storefronts mar Clarion’s downtown.
—Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
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The net result will reduce Meta’s head count by nearly a quarter—a far more aggressive reduction than those announced by other big tech companies that overhired during the pandemic.
—Dan Gallagher, wsj.com, 26 Apr. 2023
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United Talent Agency also trimmed its head count, as did several competing agencies.
—Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
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Its most immediate challenges are restoring its pilot and cabin crew head count, and increasing flight capacity.
—Tiffany May, New York Times, 29 May 2023
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Others said recreation was offered inconsistently, and often canceled if prisoners broke minor rules, like not standing up for morning head count.
—Mario Koran Jamie Kelter Davis, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2023
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