How long is a "score", as in four score and 7 years ago.?

Answer 1

20

Answer 2

A score is 20 years

Answer 3

A score is twenty (20) therefore 4 score and 7 years ago is actually 87 years.

dragonfly_quilts answer is so wrong, who was the president during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln maybe and yet 87 years later he dedicated a memorial at a Civil War site, I do not think so.
The phrase 4 score and 7 years ago was about the year 1776, ring a bell dragonfly_quilts , how about the War of Independence?

Here is his answer in its entirety:
Score" means twenty. "Four score and 7 years ago..." means 87 years ago. Abraham Lincoln used that phrase in a speech dedicating a Civil War memorial, 87 years after the battle that had been fought there

Answer 4

A "score" is 20. Four score = 80

As a side note, the term "score" in this context was a common English term even in the early days of the USA; Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address includes the phrase, "Four score and 7 years ago." There is nothing inherently religious about it, except that the term is used often in the King James Version of the Bible.

Answer 5

a score is 20 years

Answer 6

20

Answer 7

score = 20 four score =80

Answer 8

A score is equal to 20 years. Four score and seven years ago is 87 years ago.

Answer 9

one score is 20 years

four score and 7 years means 87 years.

Answer 10

"Score" means twenty. "Four score and 7 years ago..." means 87 years ago. Abraham Lincoln used that phrase in a speech dedicating a Civil War memorial, 87 years after the battle that had been fought there.