Zeppelin landings required scores of ground crewmen, retaining ropes fore and aft, and even then landings were sometimes dicey.
The digital revolution has helped supercharge globalisation, automated routine jobs, and allowed small teams of highly skilled workers to manage tasks that once required scores of people.
Before this project, Ms. Mansfield confronted a Job-like series of challenges, first battling breast cancer (the subject of her photo series "Aftermath") and then sustaining a wrist injury at work that required scores of surgeries.
Harvard is apparently the first school to require scores of five for advanced standing, or sophomore status.
Robots are cheaper than piloted systems, or even drones, which require scores of technicians backing up the remote pilot.
Many carwash companies have just two or three outlets, not 20 or 30, requiring scores of separate organizing efforts.
The AC72s are high-maintenance yachts, requiring scores of people to launch and major maintenance to avoid breakdowns.
Whatever their aim, the studies in her lab are difficult, each requiring scores of parentally volunteered participants.
The technique requires scores of healthy mammoth cells and hundreds or thousands of eggs from a closely related species, such as the Asian elephant.
The tougher one, called a Regents diploma, requires scores of at least 65 (out of 100) on five Regents exams: in English, math, science, global history and United States history.
