In due course means at the right time, later, when it's your turn: the organisers will send volunteers a map in due course. It's a classic phrase in official letters: a promise without a date. In a story about the past, it means eventually: in due course, the workshop became a busy community centre.
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action + in due course / In due course, + later event
- The organisers will send selected volunteers a map in due course.
- In due course, the small workshop became a busy community centre.
- The revised timetable will appear on the noticeboard in due course.
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First versionYou will receive the access code in a due course.
RevisionYou will receive the access code in due course.
Course is usually countable, a course, so an article seems needed: in a due course. But the phrase has no article: in due course. Course here means the normal progress of events, not a class.
Soon means in the near future. In due course doesn't promise speed, only that it will happen when the time comes. At your convenience leaves the timing to the other person.
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Complete the fixed expression meaning at a suitable later time: The details will follow ___ due course.
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in — The phrase is fixed: in due course. At isn't part of it.
Write as an organiser that participants will get the details later, without giving a date, using in due course.
The curator will contact the selected artists in due course.
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