it's 4 score. Gettysburg Address
score like 4 score and 7 years ago our fathers... score like 4 score and 7 years ago our fathers...
A score is 20 years so four score means 80 and add 7 years to that?
A score means 20, so fourscore and seven years is 87 years (20*4 + 7,) and threescore and six days is 67 days (20*3 + 7)
Four times twenty is eighty. Add 7 and you get 87. *~* FINAL ANSWER*~* 87 Answer by Jackarooster
A score is twenty years. So four score and seven is (4 X 20) + 7 years or 87 years. However, the usual quote is three score and ten years (70 years) which represented the life expectancy in those days.
It used to be called a score. So four score and 7 years would be 87 years.
As a score is 20 years, 4 score and 7 years equals 87 years.
one score is equal to 20 (4 score and 7 years ago=87 years ago)
Three score and 9 centuries would be 3 X 20 + 9 = 69 centuries, or 6,900 years. A score is simply 20, just as a dozen is 12. A score of years would be 20 years, four score and seven apples would be 4 X 20 + 7 = 87 apples.
4 score = 40 years... "4 score and 7 years ago", in the words of Abraham Lincoln, is 47 years.
A score is 20 years, therefore 4 score and 7 would total 87 years
two decades or one score, as in "four score and seven years ago" = 87 years ago (4 x score [20] + 7)