How can I correctly ask a question like "What are our numbers?" meaning what are the number of people in the audience in comparison with number of people in some other audience.
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1"What's the head count?" would be one idiomatic way to ask about attendance. – Hot Licks May 5 '15 at 1:44
"How many of us are there here?" -- Emphasizes the connection between speaker and audience".
"What is the size of this audience?" -- More impersonal.
"How many are we?" -- More poetic, less clear about whether "we" are just the audience or some larger group.
