since
/sɪn(t)s/ preposition A2- Continuously during that period of time. · I'd known her only since the previous year, so from/since the moment we got married we’ve quarrelled.· I'd been working since six o’clock, and I was getting tired.
- At certain points during that period of time.
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If not, why, there would be no promotion; and since you assure me that the cargo——”
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.
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.
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.”
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