We use for to say how long: We have been waiting for twenty
minutes. They lived in Manchester for fifteen years. We use
since with the present perfect or the past perfect to say when
something started: I have worked here since December. They had
been watching since seven o’clock in the morning. We use from
…to/until to say when something starts and finishes: They stayed
with us from Monday to Friday. We will be on holiday from the
sixteenth until the twentieth. - Determiners and quantifiers -
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