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1. Use of in instead of for with reference to past time (We have not spoken in more than a year) has spread from AmE to BrE. It is used in contexts that are explicitly or implicitly negative, and as such is a revival of an older English use:

• To Westminster Hall, where I have not been…in some months —Samuel Pepys, 1669.

More recent examples are:

• Mark had never been near his house in a year —Compton Mackenzie, 1924

• The first bridge across the Bosphorus in 2,300 years…is now being built —Daily Telegraph, 1971

• The ostensible reason for their first trip to London in several years was a new album —Evening Standard, 2003.

2. In meanings to do with place, in certain contexts AmE uses on or at where BrE uses in: a store on Fifth Avenue / They are all in school now.

3. See also the separate entries for inasmuch as, in order that, in so far as, in that.