The phrase "a few crates of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small quantity of items that are stored or transported in crates.
Example: "The warehouse received a few crates of fresh produce this morning."
Alternatives: "several boxes of" or "a couple of containers of".
THE last bottle of holiday wine has been drunk, the discarded Christmas trees have been pulped to mulch and my local farmers' market has shrunk to a few crates of muddy roots and yellowing kale.
Ross and his team mustered at the south end of the Great Lawn and mounted the R2, along with a few crates of monitors and computers, on the bed of a Central Park Conservancy pickup truck.
The only thing missing from Jim Florio's campaign headquarters here -- packed with boxes of political posters and telephone banks filled with volunteers -- are a few crates of dynamite sticks.
He, incidentally, as he picked his way over a few crates of donated fruit, gave me the most nuanced view of what he hopes the camp will achieve: "We're not going to create the answer here, but we can effect a change by leading by example, by showing people that an autonomous, democratic community based on social rather than financial cooperation can work".
We loaded in some gasoline, a few crates of protective gear and medicine, and some supplies for the Belgian mission.
In fact, the orchestra ought to ship a few crates of Bully Hill bubbly to the Windy City.
OK, so there are actually only a couple of guys intermittently filling a few crates, but it's still distracting bustle on an unprecedented scale.
Its system of distribution, which moves the sugary drink from bottling plants deep into slums and the bush a few crates at a time, may employ around 1m Africans.
(A few thousand crates of less illustrious treasures were left on a dock in Nanjing).
This was, after all, a musical hotbed filled with classic imported cars and charming old buildings—surely they'd have a few forgotten crates of records somewhere.
Give your pet a place to rest by turning a wood crate into a pet bed! Glue on four furniture legs, add a few coats of stain or paint, and fill your crate with a blanket or pillow to complete this DIY.
