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"Since" vs "that"
First,
It had been several years since I travelled that road
and
It had been several years that I travelled that road
are both grammatically proper and idiomatic, but they have different meanings. …
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It has rained a lot since June
The sentences have an implicit meaning of "since June ended." That implicit meaning is idiomatic. … It is true that when we allow implicit meanings that there is no explicit clue that precludes "since June began." It is simply an idiom. …