three score and fifth

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three score and fifth (not comparable)

Sixty-fifth.
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
  Mrs. Hatchway had given up the ghost, in the three-score and fifth year of her age.

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