Your opening sentence demonstrated that you don't know the difference between «number,» which is used to describe things that can be counted, such as fenceposts and birds, and «amount,» which is used to describe something functionally impossible to count, like water or sand. (digitalpubbing.com)
Paul Elie writes in the foreword: «Fentress's fencepost proverbs and exhortations are at the side of the road, but they are at the centre of our religious life today, not at the margins. (faith.org.uk)
Then the three dogs did stop and eddy, sniffing in the corner of the street wall and the field fenceposts, moving around the boy, ignoring him. (bookbrowse.com)