"four score and ten" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From the Bible, in which King David is supposed to have lived three score and ten (70) years.",
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          "ref": "2010, Jay Cassell, The Best Hunting Stories Ever Told, page 540",
          "text": "Our four score and ten are a mere twelve or thirteen years to a dog.",
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          "ref": "2014, Ernest Dichter, Getting Motivated, page ix",
          "text": "I have completed my four-score-and-ten, but physical age seems to be less important than life insurance statistics would indicate.",
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          "ref": "2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, page 300",
          "text": "when I was in the Army there were some guys who said they'd rather die in combat— go down fighting— than live out their four score and ten.",
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        "A human lifespan."
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see four, score, ten. 90."
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