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Meanings of threescore in English

Being ten more than fifty.

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Examples for "sixty"
1
By now the year is sixty-five days ahead of the natural calendar.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
2
Say: sixty persons per car, an average of sixty cars per train.
Fatherland
3
Their family created it as an annual event about sixty years ago.
The girl who chased the moon: a novel
4
The Army of Excellence has lost four hundred and sixty-eight soldiers today.
Swan Song
5
There's almost sixty million of us and seven billion people on Earth.
The South African
1
Irradiations of 1,200 lx irreversibly damaged the physiological response.
Pubmed
2
The Prophets had foretold a day when "The Gentiles shall come to Thy light, and kings to the brightness of Thy rising" (Isaiah lx.
The Kingdom of Heaven; What is it?
3
Fifty-six resetting trials were conducted across the subjective day in 43 young men using a three-cycle bright-light (approximately 10,000 lx).
Pubmed
4
This was followed by LX biosynthesis, which was concurrent with spontaneous resolution.
Pubmed
5
His struggles with Jugurtha, and his operations before the town, LIX., LX.
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War
Usage of threescore in English
1
At threescore years he was still in the full vigor of life.
Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 / From Lincoln to Garfield, wit...
2
Upon a general calculation, threescore persons in every hundred have the small-pox.
Letters on England
3
The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
4
Germany has been puffing for threescore years; France smokes to a man.
The Fitz-Boodle Papers
5
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young maidens without number.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
6
Every glass touched every glass, an operation which entailed some threescore clinkings.
Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front
7
He must have been at that time full threescore years and ten.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the E...
8
But I'm heading toward my threescore and ten, as the Good Book says.
American empire: blood and iron
9
It may be to-morrow; but it may be threescore years away.
Bits about Home Matters
10
Nevertheless, the Lord has been gracious; for my days have already reached threescore-and-ten.
Miles Wallingford / Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"
11
We live threescore years and we balance it with all eternity.
The Blind Spot
12
Samuel Adams died in 1803, at the age of above threescore and ten.
The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair / Or, True Stories from...
13
The saint cured no fewer than threescore and thirteen persons possessed of devils.
The Mysteries of All Nations / Rise and Progress of Superstition...
14
The whole circle of threescore monsters seemed to rise about us.
The Island of Dr. Moreau
15
The Lord can multiply a hundredfold-somethreescore, and some an hundredfold.
Erema; Or, My Father's Sin
16
A day here is as threescore of their years as these mortals live.
Kai Lung's Golden Hours
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