the usage of 'will be'

Question

I saw this sentence in a supplementary book:

"The food will be a couple of minutes"

I was wondering if I can use will be in other situations?
Like, when a landlord is trying to renovate a house and sell, they tell the buyer:

"The house will be in 3 weeks"

Anton · Accepted Answer

The first is short for:
*’the food will be {ready within}/{ready in} a couple of minutes. please have a seat'
Applying the same notion to the second, it would read:
'the house will be {ready within}/{ready in}in 3 weeks’
The repetition of within in/in in makes it meaningless or at least very confusing.
The correct parallel version of the second is thus:
'the house will be 3 weeks’ implying that *the house will be {ready in} 3 weeks

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