Sample Sentences forcensus (editor-reviewed)
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The U.S. Constitution requires a census every ten years to determine the number of seats each state has in the U.S. House of Representatives.census = an official count of a population
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It is difficult to count all the homeless when performing the census.census = population count
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The census is also used to distribute hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds to local communities.census = official count of a population
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Texas is expected to gain seats in Congress after the next census.
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Truant officers, census takers, you name it, she's outwit 'em all.† (source)
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Someone answered the door, and the family, thinking that he was a census taker, invited him in.† (source)
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At the 2010 census, it had a population of 4,201,591.† (source)
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He'd begun with the census because that was the way to identify problems and to begin building records and to create a baseline against which future censuses could measure how well the new system was working.† (source)
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I never let the United States census in my door, even though they say it's good for Indians.† (source)
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Last week's census showed about two thirds of those'd been recalled in the past month or so.† (source)
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He learned about the census of Jews in the German forces during the war, and of the numerous German populist leaflets that were being distributed throughout Hamburg, which claimed that the Jews had been cowards, shirking their duties at the front, and carrying out shady deals while there.† (source)
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According to the 1980 census, seven black folks in this state claimed to be worth more than a million dollars.† (source)
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The planet sheltered people who lived at the desert edge without caid or bashar to command them: will-o'—the-sand people called Fremen, marked down on no census of the Imperial Regate.† (source)
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'The recent census has confirmed that a single woman between the ages of sixteen and twenty currently resides in your home.† (source)
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For all Hiro knows, this hypercard might contain all the books in the Library of Congress, or every episode of Hawaii Five-O that was ever filmed, or the complete recordings of Jimi Hendrix, or the 1950 Census.† (source)
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If he doesn't, and some nursemaid goes out walkin' or orf with a soldier, leavin' of the hinfant in the perambulator—well, then I shouldn't be surprised if the census is one babby the less.† (source)
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