There has been a real and substantial growth in the feeling for international responsibility and justice among the great civilized nations during the past threescore or fourscore years.

O my good lord, I have been your tenant, and your father's tenant, These fourscore years.

War with France went on over fourscore years.

Back when people lived their fourscore years, on average, those words said even more than they do today.

After fourscore years I wonder if death should be accounted troublous.

The Swift who tap-danced so engagingly around meaning grew out of a remarkably long and complicated life, played out over nearly fourscore years and encompassing the politics of six royal reigns.

If the same is true for humans, experts said, it may mean that with better health care and medical treatment, some individuals can live far beyond their biblical fourscore years and 10.

I thank great Chaldan that I still have my vigor, and that my prowess is undiminished by the passage of a mere fourscore years.

Her complexion is very white for a woman of her age, and although the wrinkles of fourscore years are deeply indented in her cheeks, yet the crimson of youth is distinctly visible.

I have lived fourscore years and upward; I never heard a man of his place, gravity, and learning, so wide of his own respect.