greatest thing since sliced bread
Something amazing, outstanding or praiseworthy, especially a relatively recent invention likely to improve people's lives.
This column is about the greatest thing since sliced bread.
adv
From a specified time in the past.
I met him last year, but haven't seen him since.
A short/long time since
prep
From: referring to a period of time ending in the present and defining it by the point in time at which it started, or the period in which its starting point occurred.
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.
From: referring to a period of time ending in the present and defining it by the point in time at which it started, or the period in which its starting point occurred.
"Mujtahidd" has attracted almost 300,000 followers since the end of last year, when he began posting scandalous claims about the Saudi elite.
conj
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.
Because.
Since you didn't call, we left without you.
The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[…]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.
When or that.
O ſir Iohn, doe you remember ſince wee lay all night in the Winde-mill, in S Georges field.