“In time to come” and “in the time to come” – are they same or is there a difference in meaning?

For an example:

1) There would be more covid-19 cases in time to come.

2) There would be more covid-19 cases in the time to come.

Thanks in advance,
Niwantha

Question

“In time to come” and “in the time to come” – are they same or is there a difference in meaning?

For an example:

1) There would be more covid-19 cases in time to come.

2) There would be more covid-19 cases in the time to come.

Thanks in advance,
Niwantha

Answer

If you have to use this expression, I would say "in the times to come", but I wouldn't use any of these expressions as they all sound strange to me.

I would just say almost every time: "in the future". There are many other ways of saying this, none of which, to me, are preferable to "in the future."

as time goes by
as the future becomes the present
as the clock goes "tick tock"
the older we get
the closer we get to the 22nd century 
and so on.

By the way, you used "would", a conditional tense, but you have no condition in your sentence. So the better verb, since covid-19 cases are not going to stop anytime soon, would be "will".
Hence:

There will be more covid-19 cases in the future.

I hope that helps.

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