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The time when a situation began can also be indicated by using the preposition 'from' and adding the adverb 'on' or 'onwards'. The noun group can be a date, an event, or a period. The verb can be in the simple past tense or in a perfect tense.

• ...the history of British industry from the mid sixties on.
• From the eighteenth century on, great private palaces went up.
• But from the mid-1960s onwards the rate of public welfare spending has tended to accelerate.
• The family size starts to influence development from birth.
• They never perceived that they themselves had forced women into this role from childhood.
• ...the guide who had been with us from the beginning.

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You can also use the preposition 'after' to give the time when a situation began.

• They don't let anybody in after six o'clock.
• After 1929 I concentrated on canvas work.
• He'd have a number of boys to help him through the summer-time but after October he'd just have the one.