LOOKING BACK FROM A POINT IN THE FUTURE
EGP #373 | B2 | FUTURE / future perfect continuous Can use the future perfect continuous to look back to the past from a point in the future and to emphasise the duration of an activity or event. Lexical range: N/A
到下个周末，我学法语就满四年了。
By next weekend, I ___will ___have ___been ___studying French for four years.
到今年十二月，她就在同一栋楼里住了差不多二十年了。
By this December, she ___will ___have ___been ___living in the same building for nearly twenty years.
等你从机场出来的时候，我们已经排了两个多小时的队了。
By the time you come out of the airport, we ___will ___have ___been ___queuing for over two hours.
到下个月底，这个项目就已经开展了整整三个月。
By the end of next month, this project ___will ___have ___been ___running for three full months.
到你中场休息的时候，球员们已经连续踢了将近五十分钟了。
When you take your break at half-time, the players ___will ___have ___been ___playing for almost fifty minutes without a stop.