Verbs simple aspect Continuous(progressive) aspect Perfect and Perfect Continuous aspect

We’ll have lived here for two years in January.
She’ll have been working here for ten years soon.

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  We use the future perfect continuous to describe an activity leading up to a time in the future:
  

They might be tired when you see them because they’ll have been working hard.


Other ways of referring to the future
As well as all the forms we use to refer to the future, we can also use a range of verbs and expressions to show that we are talking about the future. These verbs and expressions are often more precise than a future form and they are used widely, particularly in written English.

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  BE TO (am/is I are I was / were + to-infinitive)
  

Used for formal plans, official arrangements, instructions and prohibitions:
The British Ambassador is to meet the President at the White House on Friday. The factory is to close for three weeks for repairs.
, She is to become the youngest Member of Parliament in our history.
You’re to be there by eight o’clock.
You ’re not to cross the road without me.

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  BE DUE TO / ABOUT TO / ON THE POINT OF
  

be due + ro-infinitive: used for arrangements that are to take place at a fixed time. Often used with timetables and official itineraries:
The plane’s due to arrive in half an hour.
Clare’s due to have her operation in three weeks’ time.
be (just) about + to-infinitive: used to refer to something that will happen very soon, in the immediate future:
Don’t start talking to them now: they’re about to leave.
be (just) on the point of + gerund or noun: used to refer to something in the very immediate future:
It is understood that the Chancellor is on the point of announcing his resignation.

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  CERTAIN VERBS + TO-INFINITIVE
  

We can say:
They are going to build a new shopping centre in town.
We can also use a verb that refers to the future and say:

Plan
Intend
They are proposing
	to build a new shopping centre in town.
have agreed
have promised hope

Note: that intend and propose can also be followed by a gerund:
They intend/propose building a new shopping centre in town.
We often use a verb that refers to the future, instead of a future form, particularly in written English.