The phrase "a couple of packets" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small number of packets, typically two or a few more, in various contexts such as cooking, shipping, or packaging.
Example: "I need to buy a couple of packets of seeds for my garden this spring."
Alternatives: "a few packets" or "two packets".
The airline doesn't stock it, so she brought a couple of packets from home, knowing I'd likely be on the flight she was working.
I slap down a couple of packets so far invisible for politeness and he says, hey, I see you've come double-barrelled, and helps himself.
Angel Cabrera won his first major, for the record, then ate a large steak and smoked a couple of packets of tasty cigarettes.
A whole skinned alligator seemed a bit much for just the two of us, so we bought a couple of packets of alligator meat.
The trouble is the police came down and he was the one wandering out through the broken door with a couple of packets of sweets in his pockets.
To be fair, they are also sporting a couple of packets of biscuits each, which also makes them look bigger, but for some reason Vogue refuses to endorse biscuits as a style statement, even in January when they are clearly the literal meaning of To Die For Must-Haves, even more so than a toggled Aztec cape or whatevs, so I am writing about peplums by default.
However, proposals for class-based service differentiation generally do not account for the needs of TCP traffic, which are characterized by a coupling of packet losses and achievable throughput.
Most of us are a couple of pay packets from being insolvent.
Additionally, running the wireless at maximum speed caused a couple of dropped packets, whereas running it at around 4300 baud provided near flawless communication; so we did.
Its joys are tangible and delicious; stepping out your back door to pick a dinner you grew from a couple of seed packets is viscerally satisfying.
I conceal my coffee, pictures of my family, and a couple of ramen noodles packets inside a pair of panties, stuff it in my bag, and head out the door.
