True hope speared through him for the first time since the explosion.

I hadn't worked out or been to karate since the explosion.

The parents had not been seen since the explosion.

Workers had been grumbling ever since the explosion of a week before.

In the months since the explosion, the picture has become much clearer.

It was the best news Pitt had heard since the explosion.

"Perhaps the two men have visited here since the explosion."

Some of them, he said, were still trying to learn what happened to friends and loved ones missing since the explosion.

I had not seen the train station since the explosion and was surprised to find so little damage.

Since the explosion, the firm has been scrambling to find alternative office space.