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I'll have it ready within a week = a week is the limit I am setting; it could be before then.
I'll do it in a week- It could mean that I will startin a week or that it will take the week to do.
I stay there during the holidays- for some of the time
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Re: in/within/during
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I'll have it ready within a week = a week is the limit I am setting; it could be before then.
I'll do it in a week- It could mean that I will startin a week or that it will take the week to do.
I stay there during the holidays- for some of the time
in/within/during 
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