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4. We use ‘in’ with a future time:

The train will arrive in ten minutes.
[Ten minutes from now]
I'm going to Pokhara. I'll be back in a week.

[A week from now]

5. We also use ‘in’ to say how long it takes or took to do something:

She prepares breakfast in 15 minutes.

[It takes her 15 minutes to prepare breakfast]
I learnt driving in three days.
[It took me three days to learn driving]

6. We use ‘on’ for specific time and ‘in’ for general time.

in the morning (s), in the afternoon(s), in the evening(s)
BUT
on Friday evening, on Monday night

7. ‘In time’ and ‘on time’ do not suggest the same thing.

on time Ö punctual, not late.
If something happens on time, it happens at the time, which was planned.
The meeting began on time. [It began at the time it was planned to begin]

BUT
in time Ö soon enough for something or soon enough to do something
A child stepped in front of the car, but I managed to stop just in
time. [soon enough to avoid hitting the child]

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