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The phrase "in a barracks" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a location or situation that takes place within a military barracks, which is a building or group of buildings where soldiers live and work. Example: "The new recruits were assigned to bunk beds in a barracks, where they would train and sleep for the duration of their military training."
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He is in a barracks, shared with about 20 others.
His sparring partners are living in a barracks.
Faridah, the shopkeeper, has been living in a barracks outside the city.
The conditions were appalling and they'd put us in a barracks.
Vokrri spent nearly two years in Germany, where he lived in a barracks with refugees from all over the world.
The last time I was in Naples I stayed in a barracks that used to be a monastery.
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McMillan has previously said that she was placed in a barracks-like room with almost 100 other women.
Vladislav Tretiak, the three-time gold-medal hockey goalie of a generation ago, had to remind an interviewer that, at the 1980 Winter Olympics, in Lake Placid, New York, he and other Olympians were put up in a barracks-like building that was later used as a federal prison.
It had 1,200 men and three companies were based in Cullompton with a barracks in New Cut.
He met with Bill Clinton and Colin Powell in his later years, and dedicated a barracks in Virginia in honor of the Buffalo Soldiers.
In front of a barracks young soldiers burn wooden chairs to try to get warm.
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