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since

From a particular time in the past until now or until a later time in the past. I haven't been there since 1969. Since you told me about it, I've been thinking a lot. You use since to show that something known is the reason for something else. Since John can't be there, we'll try for another day. (The audience already knows that John can't be there.)

since

from a specified time in the past

since

From: referring to a period of time ending in the present and defining it by the point in time at which it started, or the period in which its starting point occurred. Continuously during that period of time. from (time)

since

From the time that. Because. because

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Simple sentences

Since you have a cold, you must not go out.
It has been raining since Tuesday.
We have made numerous improvements to our house since we bought it.
Since I was thirsty, I drank water.
Three years have passed since then.
It has been raining since yesterday.
We have lived in this town since 1960.
It has been raining since last Sunday.
It has been raining since Sunday.
A year has passed since she came here.
Since he was tired, he went to bed early.
She has known him since they were very young.
Tom has known Mary since she was a little girl.
I don't know how to demonstrate it, since it's too obvious!
I came to Tokyo three years ago and have been living here ever since.
It has been so long since I last went to Disneyland with my family.
It's lonely in the saddle since the horse died.
Since Mario lied to me, I don't speak to him anymore.
He changed a lot since the last time.
It's been ten years since we last met.
Since you like to write letters, why don't you drop her a line?
Since you have nothing to do with this matter, you don't have to worry.
Since you say so.
We've been living here since July.
Since it's cold outside, you'd better put your overcoat on.
Ever since we've been wearing clothes, we haven't known one another.
Since neither one of us could afford to take the other to the movies, we went Dutch.
Since it was raining, we stayed at home.
Since it rained, I did not go.
It has been raining since the day before yesterday, but it may clear up this afternoon.
It has been raining on and off since the day before yesterday.

Movie subtitles

This makes it seven incidences since Zero appeared.
It's been a thing since I was a kid.
And since then, they've found hundreds more.
It's estimated that since the emergence of Earth's first life form, 1 00 billion species have existed on the planet.
Since the coffin is about to leave, why don't you go to the burial ground.
It's been a long time since I've seen that expression on his face.
This is the first time since the time Heaven was created.
Since you made it a big deal like going down to the world of the living, I thought you had some amazlingly thought out plan.
Since your dark pieces won, there would be many people dead somewhere.
Since we don't have any budget, we fired so many. How can there be a new guy?
Since I've already received the payment, I can't do that.
It was the most interesting thing that ever happened to me since I came to Miryang!
I have never seen such interesting incident ever since I was born!
Since I couldn't fully accomplish your order yet, Madame.
Since you defeated me, you're the only person I can entrust with the weapons I used in the last 15 years of fighting you.
Since you joined the French, he took 2 wives to sire children.
We've dealt with them for 2 centuries, since my ancestors came from Leghorn to trade between Barbary Coast pirates and Italian merchants.
Since your paper deals with politics, I've a favor to ask.
Since that is the case, could you arrange a meeting between myself as head of the Jewish Council, and the governor-general?
You're the only single parent whose son witnessed his own mother get killed in a hit-and-run and hasn't said a word since.
He hasn't spoken since she died.
It's been almost a year since Rie died. And what?
It's literally been six months since I've had pizza.
Uh, Zig, would you like to start the critique, since you also have firsthand knowledge on the subject?
Nothing's right since Steve left.
My wife and I, we'd been together since we were 16.
Since we can't fully trust the United Nations, it would be better not to hand that over.
You guys have been tight since kindergarten.
And since you won't take responsibility, as of today, I'm taking over the peanut racket, and I guarantee every sandwich I sell.
Since we couldn't stop them from launching their balloons, we had to stop them from getting the materials they needed to make the balloons.
Nick has been ignoring me ever since we, um, you know. So I was starting to think he was kind of a jerk.
And has been since we set foot in Alvo's villa.
I think it's pretty obvious that Stiles has a crush on Lydia. He has since he was, like, eight.
Erica, how's life been for you since we met? Hmm.
It's just we haven't really talked since that night, and.
Since I'm like this already.
But I'm South Korea's King. Since it isn't an official standpoint from the United States Government and not your own opinion, but instead we have to understand by looking at the situation ourselves.
To us, the danger of war has always existed since the beginning.
I love you. Since I have you, I'll try my best.

News and current affairs

Instead, the crisis stemmed from the US sub-prime debacle, which quickly dragged the global economy into its deepest recession since the 1930's.
Since he first appeared at the side of Dr. Chaim Weizmann in the late 1940's during the struggle for Jewish statehood and sovereignty, few people could articulate the Zionist and later the Israeli case with comparable eloquence and conviction.
Simply restricting the practice of land clearing probably would not work, since farm families and communities would face a strong temptation to evade legal limits.
NATO has been flexible since its inception.
The cumulative total since the beginning of the first crisis year (2008) means that Spain has financed its entire current-account deficit via the printing press.
At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, America committed itself to protect global ecosystems, yet little has been seen or heard from US policy makers on this issue since then.
America's situation was not unique: Japan had been in been in thrall to a liquidity trap since the mid-1990s.
But there had been no other examples since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
There have been two eras since World War II when policymakers - American policymakers, at least - believed that they had solved the riddle of the business cycle and had learned how to manage a modern industrial or post-industrial economy.
Since Greece's current-account deficit as a share of GDP was three times higher than Ireland's, Greek prices would have to fall by about half to achieve the same kind of success.
What a distance Poland has travelled since communism's collapse in 1989!
But like all his previous initiatives since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington almost five years ago now, the NME ran into trouble from the outset.
Indeed, even German unemployment, which has been rising in cycles since 1970, will decline slightly in 2006, from 4.8 to 4.7 million.
The report shows that since 2000, investors or state bodies in rich or emerging countries have bought more than 83 million hectares (more than 200 million acres) of agricultural land in poorer developing countries.
Since their articles appeared, the price of gold has moved up still further.
Since then, the index has climbed above 10,000.
After all, since then the EP's influence and powers of joint decision-making have grown constantly.
Since 2002, many efforts have been made to improve women's lives in Afghanistan.
This is at odds with the EU's proclamations since the 1999 Rio summit that Latin America is a vital political and economic partner.
Indeed, since 1980's the industrialization that had taken place in Africa has by and large been reversed.
Precedents exist for this. NATO has been flexible since its inception.
Indeed, ever since the Industrial Revolution, the rise of light manufacturing has driven a dramatic rise in national income.
His land costs are low. So are his labor costs, since he relies on family and friends to weed and pick the crop.
But it is also true of the broader global economy, which was only just beginning to recover from the worst financial crisis and recession since the 1930's.
Events and structural forces, however, have affected and changed the nature of the North Korean system since 1991.

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