The concert Will start in fifteen minutes vs The concert will start about fifteen minutes

The correct phrase is "the concert will start in fifteen minutes." The phrase "about fifteen minutes" is not commonly used in this context.

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The concert Will start in fifteen minutes

This phrase is correct and commonly used to indicate the time remaining until the concert starts.

This phrase is used to inform someone that the concert will begin after a period of fifteen minutes.

Examples:

The concert will start in fifteen minutes, so we should head to our seats now.
Please be seated as the concert will start in fifteen minutes.

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You account will be debited in fifteen minutes.
We got dinner in fifteen minutes.
Newton came in fifteen minutes later and went on a shooting spree.
Passengers must take their seats in fifteen minutes.
I have a business meeting in fifteen minutes.
Listen, we can fix that in fifteen minutes.
There will be a formal ribbon cutting in the America room in fifteen minutes.
It'll all be done in fifteen minutes.
We have to leave in fifteen minutes.
Hopefully they'll be here in fifteen minutes.
They'll be meeting our boss in fifteen minutes.
Meet me round the back of the lifeboats in fifteen minutes.
I have to do the "I remember" speeches in fifteen minutes so. Yes, of course.
You know, if I bail now I could there in fifteen minutes.
The piano tuner will be here in fifteen minutes.
It is impossible in fifteen minutes to let each political group speak, and the draftsman for the Committee on Budgets, when the voting starts at noon.
The anti-explosive guys are waiting to meet us at the other side of La Bocatoma in fifteen minutes.
Bingo will commence in the main hall in fifteen minutes.
The concert will take place next Sunday.
The concert will take place next summer.

The concert will start about fifteen minutes

This phrase is not correct in this context. The preposition "in" is needed to indicate the time remaining until the concert starts.

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Right, we'll be there in about fifteen minutes.
Weknownotwhere, but it takes about fifteen minutes.
I should have you on the ground in about fifteen minutes.
I probably only do about fifteen minutes... of real, actual work.
WOLF: We got about fifteen minutes... before Jimmie's better half pulls into the driveway.
I'd say in a given week... I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work.
The concert will take place next Sunday.
The concert will take place next summer.
The concert will take place from 3.30pm to 4pm on the courtyard of the Louise Weiss (LOW) building of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
The concert will be given by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Strasbourg accompanied by the choir "petits Chanteurs de Strasbourg".
I'll tell you what I'll do I'll let you in and you can have a look round on your own and what? I'll come back in about fifteen minutes, OK?
I finished fifteen minutes before departure.
Fifteen minutes before the vortex opened.
Your contact is fifteen minutes late.
Eighty-Five, ninety calls in the last fifteen minutes.
As you can see, we've broken everything down into fifteen minute increments.
The torpedo tore the boat in two, she sank within fifteen minutes.
' Fifteen minutes to lift-off, John.
He was in his bullfighting class and arrived home fifteen minutes later.
We will dedicate approximately one hour and fifteen minutes to Question Time.

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the concert will start in about fifteen minutes

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The concert Will start in fifteen minutes vs The concert will start about fifteen minutes