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Example sentences for "fourscore years"

  • He sincerely abhorred the system of Oriental despotism, which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of fourscore years, had established in the empire.

  • And all sorts of unexpected and unheard-of things, which had lain unseen during our national life of fourscore years, came up and are coming up daily, shaken from their bed by the concussions of the artillery bellowing around us.

  • Yes, let me live to be fourscore years, and then I will tell you whether I should like a few more years or not.

  • The number of people in Ireland have more than doubled in fourscore years.

  • All this was after a period of fourscore years of profound internal peace--and the question was, what was the cause of it?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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