Since the war started, time off had been difficult to come by.

Still, he says, business is down 25 percent since the war started.

The city had about 45,000 people before the war started.

And you know what he did some 20 years before the war started?

For a long time we didn't know the war had started.

She was here at home so little since the war had started.

I would only been six or seven when the war started.

She has done many thousands of miles since the war started.

But then, you could say that about a whole lot of things he'd seen since the war started.

But then it was 12 days before the war started.