One score is 20 years so four score (80) and seven years ago would be 87 years.
Four score and seven=87 87 years prior to the Gettysburg address, was the American Revolution.
A score means 20. Hence in the Gettysburg Address when Lincoln referred to "four score and seven years ago" he meant 87 years ago.
If you mean four score and seven years ago, it was said by Abraham Lincoln, the first words from his Gettysburg Address.
'Four score and seven years ago...'
1776 - the Declaration of Independence.
A score is equal to twenty. "Four score and seven years" is eighty-seven years.
In fact, score does not equal 50 - score equals 20. "Four score and seven years ago" is equal to 4 x 20 + 7 = 87 years.
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.
Lincoln's Emancipation was proclaimed great honor and contact officicated in glory.
"Four score and seven years" which indicates 87 years (4x20 +7), the time between the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) and the Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863).87a score is 20 years, so 4 score is 80 years plus 7.
a score, as in "Four score and seven years..."
Nope - four score and seven years is 87. Which is eight decades.
As a score is 20 years, 4 score and 7 years equals 87 years.
A score is twenty years, so 4 score is 80 years and 'four score and seven' means 87 years.
Four score and six years is equal to 86 years. It is a historical way of expressing a time period in terms of 20-year increments.
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A "score" is twenty, so four score and seven = 87.