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since

/sɪn(t)s/ conjunction B1
  1. From the time that. · I have loved you since I first met you.· I've known her since I've lived in her street, but I've not seen her out of the house since her husband died.
  2. Because. · Since you didn't call, we left without you.
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If not, why, there would be no promotion; and since you assure me that the cargo——”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 3 · C1
I have been good to the people, and they like me; but ever since this Palace was built, I have shut myself up and would not see any of them.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 109 · B2
No, for I think he never liked me since the day when I was silly enough, after a little quarrel we had, to propose to him to stop for ten minutes at the island of Monte Cristo to settle the dispute—a proposition which I was wrong to suggest, and he quite right to refuse.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 10 · C1
Elizabeth thought this was going pretty far; and she listened with increasing astonishment as the housekeeper added, “I have never had a cross word from him in my life, and I have known him ever since he was four years old.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 277 · B2

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