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Exercises

90.1 Complete the text with at, on, or in.
There’s one bus from London which gets here {!)......... ten o'clock )......... the morning and then
another which gets in @)......... four o’clock (4)......... the afternoon. That's (8)......... weekdays, but
Oo, the weekend the timetable is a bit different. (7)......... Saturday there are still two buses but
the second one arrives ()......... five thirty; (%......... Sunday there is just the one bus (!9......... two
o’clock.And (000000... the winter, the service doesn’t run at all (12)......... Sundays.

90.2 Cross out the incorrect answers.
CDFCOMAN NAN DWN R I’ve been in the army for/since I was eighteen.
The teacher told us to finish our homework by/until Monday.
We can’t leave by/until the others get back.
They’ve worked here for/since/during six months.
I visit my uncle every week for/since/during the winter.
I was at university for/since/during four years.
She’s going back to France in/after three months’ time.

It was hot during/throughout August; we didn’t have one day under 30 degrees.
— He left the office during/throughout the lunch break.
I booked a table in the restaurant by/for next Saturday. I hope that’s OK.
90.3 Can you complete these sentences with the correct number?
1 The Olympic Games usually lasts about .................... weeks.
2 Rembrandt was born in the ..................... th century.
3 President Kennedy died in ...........0........ . That’s oo... years ago.
4 It takes approximately ..........0000000.... hours to fly from Tokyo to New York.
5 Some athletes can run 100 metres in less than ..................... seconds.
6 The wc... was the decade in which the USA and USSR (at that time) were both
trying to be the first country to put a man on the moon.

90.4 Replace the underlined time expressions with more ‘approximate’ time expressions.
1 I went to the library three days ago.
2 This dictionary isn’t great but it’ll be OK until I’m more advanced.
3 I haven’t been to the cinema for the last three weeks.
4 And I haven’t been to a concert for three or four years.
5 I went to Egypt with my parents but that was ten years ago.

90.5 Complete these sentences about yourself and your country.
DFomnanPWN I usually have a holiday in oo... eee
PR On weekdays I usually get up at .....000.00000000.... and leave home at ............0..00.. .
I always clean my teeth in ........000.cccee
I don’t go to school/college/work on .........00..cccccceecees .

I have been in my present school/college/job for ..........00...0cc:cceseeeeee
I have been studying English since ...........00....00.0c0. .
I haven’t spoken English since ......0000.00000ccceee

You can’t get a driving licence until 2.000000. .
—_— It takes me 20.0.0. to get to school/college/work.
It rains quite a lot during .........00..000..0cce .

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