(W 133) --- 11.13 -- Il y a, ça fait, depuis. |
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Mireille lives on Vaugirard Street. (Attention: She buys her clothes [dresses herself] at Prisunic. She lives on Vaugirard Street.) She has been living on Vaugirard Street since she was born. She has been living on Vaugirard Street for nineteen or twenty years. |
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Cécile and Jean-Denis have been married for two or three years. (Cécile and Jean-Denis are married since two or three years.) |
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Marie-Laure has been going to school since the age of three. She is now ten. Therefore, she has been going to school for seven years. |
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Mireille has been resting in the sun since ten after ten in the morning. It is now twenty after ten. Therefore, she has been there for ten minutes. |
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She has been studying at the Sorbonne since the month of October. We are in the month of May. She has been at the Sorbonne for six months. |
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The Sorbonne has existed since the thirteenth century. We are in the twenty-first century. Therefore, the Sorbonne has existed for almost eight centuries. |