The answer is 84 years. A score is a group of 20 items/people/years, etc.
years in 4 score
A score in time eans 20 years "four score and seven years ago" means 87
A score is 20 years so four score means 80 and add 7 years to that?
"Four score and six years" refers to a time period of 86 years. A "score" is equal to 20 years, so four score amounts to 80 years, and adding six gives a total of 86. This phrase is famously used in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, where he begins with "Four score and seven years ago," which refers to 87 years prior to the speech in 1863.
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years in 4 score
a score is 20 years, so four score and ten years ago would be 90 years
A score is 20, so four-score is 80.
Lincoln's Emancipation was proclaimed great honor and contact officicated in glory.
A score in time eans 20 years "four score and seven years ago" means 87
A score is twenty years, so 4 score is 80 years and 'four score and seven' means 87 years.
A score is old English for twenty years, so four score would be eighty years.
A score is 20 years so four score means 80 and add 7 years to that?
One score is 20 years so four score (80) and seven years ago would be 87 years.
a score, as in "Four score and seven years..."
87The term "score" refers to a unit of twenty years; four score, is 4 20s or 80 years, and 7, is 87 years. 87 years, prior to 1863 (the year the Gettysburg Address, was given.), was 1776, the year of the American Revolution.
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.