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When do you use “in” instead of “at”? Such as we say “in the beginning” and instead of “at the beginning”???

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It is also hard for me to discriminate them. I learned how to use them by memorizing some conventional phrases, such as "in the beginning" , "at the first sight", etc.
To be perfectly imperfect
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It's a question of range, for instance, time periods: year/month/day... /hour/minute/moment/instant/second

Just my experience or personal opinion:

  Use "in" for long time periods (or large space):  "in the 19th century" / "in 2015" / "in Africa" / "In France"

  Use "at" for short time periods (or limited space):  "at this moment" / "Look at me" / "aim in his direction but not right at him"

  "in" and "on" are used much more often to specify time than "at"  which is only used to emphasize limited range
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