But an official of the engineers' union insisted that merely counting infractions was an imperfect way of measuring performance.

IRT allows scoring to go beyond merely counting the number of correct answers.

They had axes slung across their backs, although by dwarf standards this counted merely as 'politely dressed' rather than 'heavily armed'.

Thereafter it is addition, and addition, as we have seen, is merely counting.

I'll merely count you as a boy who's got to have an eye on him - my eye, see?

Bertrand's point in constructing this example was to show that merely counting cases is not always proper.

Unfortunately for Fear, Wimbledon went on to lose the game 6-2, and Fear's goals counted merely as a consolation.

You can see the material advantage by merely counting.

He recommended the conductor to "merely count the music out as he counts out a motet by Josquin".

That the paymaster didn't even bother to set guard, demand receipt, or see it counted merely confirmed its worthlessness.