Examples:

• Once the polls were closed, they observed the collection and counting of the ballots.
• Two days and counting, you know?
• We've already got over $6 million and counting.
• So 25 hours and counting.
• The students learned about Hanukkah by reading stories, spinning the dreidel, tasting latkes and counting candles on the menorah.
• About Emmett Till and how America has swept the truth under the carpet and counting on us to have amnesia.
• And we do. Young children take delight in sorting and counting even when it is not part of a formal lesson.
• All under the auspices of a neutral administration, which offers the necessary services in the polling stations and counting centres.
• Once again, this proposal fails to uphold the subsidiarity principle, which would accord the Member States the right to set out methods for calculation as they see fit for the purposes of salaries and counting working time.
• Five ships and counting, heading right towards us. Red alert.