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Old 11-Feb-2008, 13:08
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Default Re: Finished adverbs with the present perfect

That was exactly the kind of phrase I was talking about. "Five years ago" is a definite point in the past, and we can add "since" to it to indicate a period starting them and continuing to the present: since five years ago.
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