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"were contained in" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to show that something is included or contained in something else. For example: "All of the answers to the questions were contained in the instructions."
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The revamped proposals were contained in President Bush's budget.
They were contained in a decaying black garbage bag.
The words that really mattered were contained in that 240-page indictment.
It may have been the vessel they were contained in – a peanut butter jar.
The drugs were contained in 54 bags, each weighing about 70 pounds, officials said.
The performers were contained in two roped-off corrals, beneath the hall's massive gold chandeliers.
The bombs were contained in plastic bags and backpacks that were planted on four trains.
"The whole book is, as it were, contained in the last volume," he wrote.
Contents of the briefing were contained in a PowerPoint presentation leaked to a Web site, Above Top Secret.
The allegations were contained in two paragraphs in a crime supplement about Baby P's mother, who had separated from KC.
Beckett's production notes were contained in a simple cream-coloured notebook, which he later donated to Reading University Library.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
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