The phrase "a few buckets of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small quantity of something that can be measured in buckets, often in a casual or informal context.
Example: "We need a few buckets of water to fill the pool before the party starts."
Alternatives: "several containers of" or "a couple of pails of".
Guardian: 'A real hero': one man against the inferno, with a hose and a few buckets of water Telegraph: Bushfires: Australia's bare-chested national hero BABY FATHER The Sun has a somewhat disturbing exclusive today about a boy who has become a father at 13 - "Baby-faced father of little Maisie".
As I'm walking back with a few buckets of this fine compost ingredient, I spot a bed of hellebores bursting with flower heads.
In the old days, the shippers tossed a few buckets of ice water over the floors of waterfront saloons; this sobered up enough labor to load a fleet of trucks.
Go to the centrally located Swan Lake – where the city's Vardavar celebrations are held and where Kanye West jumped in when he visited Yerevan last year – to cool off with soaked locals and hurl a few buckets of water yourself.
Given the enormous expense of manufacturing drugs artificially, transgenic animals offered a brilliant way to make dirt-cheap drugs; $50,000 worth of proteins could be extracted from a few buckets of milk at a cost of about $12 of hay!
A painter and decorator pays tribute to his mum using humour and a few buckets of paint.
Or suggest that a certain fence or a group of gnomes can be used to toss your rotten pumpkin innards at, and leaving the revelers with a few buckets of scooped-out pumpkin gunk to toss.
But we needed to get, I think, a few basics right, and they go into a few buckets – the first of which was that we needed to really get our innovation firing up again.
I have often argued (perhaps incorrectly, time will tell) that mobile apps which truly achieve breakout status come from one of a few buckets.
There was no shower ("we have a few buckets").
There were few buckets of chlorine solution, and the staff found it impossible to clean their hands between patients.
