Perplexing sentences

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1. There have been changes in the weather .......the 19th century.

a) for b) since

2. I haven't seen you........winter.

a) for b) since

My answer:

1. since 2. since

I learnt that we use 'since' before names of centuries and seasons. Is this a fixed rule?

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Omar AhmedMy answer:1. since 2. since

Your answers are correct.

Omar AhmedI learnt that we use 'since' before names of centuries and seasons. Is this a fixed rule?

It may be true, but I'm not sure how helpful it is. In contexts like these, when you are talking about a period of time that began in the past and continues to the present, you would use since when you define it in terms of when it started, and for when you define it in terms of how long it has lasted.

I've been working on this since lunchtime.

Nobody has used it since last week.

She's been working there since last summer.

They've made them that way since the 1950s.

They haven't built a building like that around here since the eighteenth century.

She's been working on it for three weeks.

That factory has been closed for several years.

This has been the standard method for more than 50 years.

The treasure remained hidden for centuries.

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