standard scratch score

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golf the number of strokes a scratch player would need to go round a particular course, based on the length of each hole to the green and allowing 36 putts for the round

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How to use standard scratch score in a sentence

Yes, we do typically do better than Europe (and Canada, too, which is frequently awful on this score).
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Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.
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The same Pediatrics journal notes that 17 states have some form of exception to the standard parental consent requirement.
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Christopher Nolan, Interstellar “My films are always held to a weirdly high standard,” Nolan told me.
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“You try to always scratch where the itch is,” Huckabee said about his campaigning and rhetoric in the 2008 primary.
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The Seven-score and four on the six middle Bells, the treble leading, and the tenor lying behind every change, makes good Musick.
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But the Mexican caballeros had no notion of coming up to the scratch a third time.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Indeed, a score of bodies lying there had not been seen by Malcolm during his first frenzied examination of the house.
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And it would be hard indeed, if so remote a prince's notions of virtue and vice were to be offered as a standard for all mankind.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
The Indian turned his head, and spoke to some one behind; one after another a score of figures rose.
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