half-a-score

• “A young fellow learns more there in an hour than by poring over books for half-a-score of years.”

  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

• “As for Nora and Castle Brady, between today and yesterday there seemed to be a gap as of half-a-score of years.”

  The Memoires of Barry Lyndon

• “Mrs Dale told herself half-a-score of times that morning that she could not be justified in keeping the letter from her daughter.”

  The Last Chronicle of Barset

• “That I should feel self-respect as a result of killing almost half-a-score of my fellow human beings was a mark of what I had become since my capture by the Nazis.”

  The Dreamthief's Daughter

• “Splash and burble echoed softly from half-a-score fountains, scattered among fig tree and flowering plants and alabaster statuary.”

  Conan The Magnificent

• “Splash and burble echoed softly from half-a-score fountains, scattered among fig trees and flowering plants and alabaster statuary.”

  Conan The Magnificent

• “Close behind their arrows came half-a-score Hyrkanians, waving short horn bows and curved yataghans as they ran.”

  Conan The Unconquered

• “Washington had to treat half-a-score, more or less, of administrative ills.”

  Simon & Schuster: Washington

• “The Army must be increased to 110 battalions, the artillery enlarged, a corps of engineers established—half-a-score changes must be made at once if the new Army was to be recruited or be efficient when created.”

  Simon & Schuster: Washington

• “Our "Empire" began with such a connotation; the word has now half-a-score.”

  What Is A Canadian Citizen?

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