Question: I found the phrase in this sentence,

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> There are way over 10,000 numbered examples in The Cambridge Grammar, and thousands more **given in passing in the text**.
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I couldn't parse this last part at first. Not sure if it is *"to give in"* (which sounds quite wrong), or *"in passing"* (meaning casually, sounds wrong; not part of the main subject, also sounds wrong), or *"passing in"*, or it was *"given a pass"*, or something else. I only know that if I omitted that *in passing* part, it will make more sense.

I looked up *"pass in"* in a few dictionaries, nothing came up.

After some twenty searches or so, I finally found this definition:

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> **in passing**: by the way; incidentally: *he mentioned your visit in passing*
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which is helpful, since I can understand **given *incidentally* in the text**.

But I am still a bit unsure...

Do I understand that sentence correctly?

Answer: 
It is, in my opinion, a little confusing to phrase it that way. But I would read it as:

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> (given) (in passing) (in the text) 
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Broken down:

* given : there are many examples **specified or stated** within the text
* in passing : there are many examples **briefly and casually** mentioned in the text
* In the text : self-explanatory, but basically the examples can be found **inside the text**.

Written another way: There are thousands of examples which are mentioned casually inside the text.
I'd say that a better interpretation of "in passing" would be "[said or mentioned as an aside](http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/in+passing)".

So the sentence should read:

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> There are way over 10,000 numbered examples in The Cambridge Grammar, and thousands more **given *as an aside* in the text**.
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Hope this helps.