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Silak12 Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Since vs for the last hundred years?

Hi! everyone.
Could you tell me which one of the following is correct and why?
They have been living here for the past hundred years
They have been living here since the past hundred years.
Thanks!
  

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org/grammar/british-grammar/since See, especially, the section "Typical errors".

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This might be useful:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/since

See, especially, the section "Typical errors".
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silak12They have been living here for the past hundred years
They have been living here for the past one hundred years. No "since" clause needed.
silak12They have been living here since the past hundred years.
They have been living here since their family immigrated from China a hundred years ago.
The
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since {a time} 2 pm, Monday, January, 1995, the fifth century
for {a period of time} three minutes, two hours, a day, three weeks, a month, 50 years

CJ
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