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New2grammar Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

In/over

In/Over the next few days, our atheletes will arrive in Beijing.

Are both correct? If yes, I would like to see the suble differences. Please help me analyze them.
Thanks.
  

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Hi, In/Over the next few days, our athletes will arrive in Beijing. Are both correct? If yes, I would like to see the suble differences.

— Clive

  • Hi, In/Over the next few days, our athletes will arrive in Beijing.
  • Are both correct?
  • If yes, I would like to see the suble differences.
  • Please help me analyze them.
  • Here are a couple of comments on the general focus.
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Hi,

In/Over the next few days, our athletes will arrive in Beijing.

Are both correct? If yes, I would like to see the suble differences. Please help me analyze them.

Here are a couple of comments on the general focus.

over - There will be more than one arrival, and these arrivals will be fairly evenly spread thoughout the next few days.

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New2grammarIn/Over the next few days, our atheletes will arrive in Beijing.

Are both correct? If yes, I would like to see the suble differences. Please help me analyze them.
Thanks.

Both are correct.

My interpretation:

In the next few days - the athletes will start to arrive after a couple of days from today.

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Thank you, Clive and Optilang. It's always great to receive different opinions. I wonder what a third native speaker would interpret. The differences are more apparent that I'd thought
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