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The phrase "a box containing" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing the contents of a box or what is held within it.
Example: "She opened a box containing old photographs from her childhood."
Alternatives: "a box filled with" or "a box that holds".
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It's a predicament that hit Taylor Swift a month ago when a box containing hundreds of her unopened fan letters was found unceremoniously ditched in a Nashville dumpster.
He had a box containing Instant Ocean.
Here was a box containing a woman's lifetime of tears.
The second was a box containing several rings.
The bomb was placed in a box containing medicine, the police said.
Much of it was stolen: computer, stereo, a box containing her mother's ashes.
The teas are $4.50 to $5 for a box containing 15 tea bags.
As a simple example, you could add a box containing articles by your favourite Guardian columnist to your Facebook profile.
For Alder – who keeps a box containing the DVD, the script and the programme – the experience holds a special resonance.
Pratt flew in from his home base in L.A., bringing with him a box containing his machine.
He carried an elegant shopping bag, and pulled from it a box containing a set of Wüsthof knives.
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