(1) u2018Well then, sir,u2019 said Dr Johnson, u2018you see there can be no more than fourscore men of fashion who can do this.u2019(2) the cares of fourscore summers(3) No doubt, some of these Californians applauded the fact that a woman who is skirting that mythic age of fourscore still has the wherewithal to perform, and to do it so well.(4) The Bible tells us that u2018the days of our years are threescore and tenu2019 or, u2018by reason of strength,u2019 sometimes fourscore .(5) And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.(6) In contrast, during the period from 1990 to 2003, NASA flew about fourscore shuttle missions, allowing it to launch and repair the Hubble Space Telescope and partially build what is now known as the International Space Station.
