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Default Re: What's wrong?

The meaning is illogical. The people couldn't be "streaming in" and at the same time in the pews and the doorways. And if the 700 in the pews and those in the doorways were already tthere, how could hundreds more be streaming in?? It's a meaning problem, not grammar. It would be better expressed as :
Hundreds of people streamed in and there were soon 700 filling the pews and more than 100 standing in the doorways along the side.
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