See three score and ten on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1942 March 30, “Big Red's 25th”, in Time, retrieved 2015-07-18:",
"text": "If ever a U.S. horse attains the immortality of Bellerophon's Pegasus or Don Quixote's Rosinante, surely it will be Samuel D. Riddle's Man o' War. This Sunday, at Faraway Farm in Lexington, Ky., \"Big Red\" reaches the grand old age of 25—an age comparable to three-score and ten for a man.",
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