"Four score and seven years" refers to 87 years. A "score" is equal to 20 years, so "four score" is 80 years, and when you add the 7 years, you get a total of 87 years.
Read the opening of the Gettysburg Address, then answer the questions.
How long is “four score and seven years”?
years
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
In this reading:
Score means “twenty”
Conceived means “born” or “created”
Proposition means “idea” or “proposal”
Endure means “survive”
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