The phrase "a box of pills" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a container that holds medication in pill form.
Example: "I need to pick up a box of pills from the pharmacy for my headache."
Alternatives: "a container of tablets" or "a package of medication."
Hemingway hung up, and from his bathrobe pocket took a box of pills.
On his desk, a copy of the Koran sat next to a box of pills labelled, in English, "Provide Relief of Pain for Up to Three Days".
When asked for medicine for an infection, Mr. Martinez often reaches for a box of pills called Ampitrex, a brand name for the antibiotic ampicillin.
There was a box of pills labelled "Poison"; empty ammunition cartridges and trompe-l'œil bullet marks painted on the walls ("I didn't think the attic would stand up to real bullets," he later remarked); a preserved snake; a brass microscope; and an invitation to the Gasfitters' Ball.
"A task like opening a box of pills can be shared on RoboEarth, so other robots can also do it without having to be programmed for that specific type of box," he added.
Would they run down the street to the Eckerd drugstore and buy him a box of sleeping pills?
In Nuevo Progreso, only yards past the Mexican border, pharmacists respond to requests for a pill to "bring back a woman's period" by offering the drug, misoprostol, at discount prices: generic at $35 for a box of 28 pills, or the branded Cytotec for $175.
Those buying a dead half-cow or a large box of pills might indeed be prepared to pay a substantial premium for the honour of a handshake, a smile or a nod of thanks by the artist in return for extra cash.
NOW adorning Mr. Pitofsky's office are trophies of past triumphs, including a box of Doan's pills recalling a successful deceptive marketing case and a bottle of McCormick's Beijing Rub from "the one price discrimination case we brought in my six years as chairman".
The girls' testimony was bolstered by evidence seized the day of the raid, including photos of what appear to be "wedding" ceremonies with Glenn and the girls, a black head scarf, a box of birth control pills, and a beige bag with "various bottles and boxes of drugs".
And that opened up a whole new box of pills.
