The phrase "a few extra points" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to additional marks or scores, often in the context of grading or evaluations.
Example: "If you complete the extra credit assignment, you could earn a few extra points on your final grade."
Alternatives: "some additional points" or "a couple more points".
How much are we willing to pay for a few extra points?
"Our clients never knowingly agreed to risk a significant loss of principal for a few extra points of interest".
Yet a few extra points may be all the PRI needs, and will be tempted to cheat for.
Over the winter the F.I.A. abandoned the rule, so teams will again be free to maneuver their drivers like chess pieces, giving one an advantage toward winning the title — or even just a few extra points — over the other.
The country's political elite rushed to watch Das Wunder von Bern and Gerhard Schröder scored a few extra points when he declared, bleary-eyed at the exit of his local cinema, that he had cried twice.
Martina Navratilova had made up her mind to play singles at Wimbledon, had just produced her best result in ten years, and was intent on scoring a few extra points, this time against the press.
I also think that that his understandable disgust at exaggerated claims that a few extra pounds point inevitably to an early grave leads him to skate much too dismissively over the troubling recent rise in serious childhood obesity as well as increases in several weight-influenced forms of diabetes.
But if you are right on the edge of a better credit range and you discover an error that could add a few points to your score, those few extra points might just be enough to get you over the hump into that higher credit range.
A few extra pounds around the middle?
And all it took to convince the public of its merits, it seems, was the promise of shorter queues or a few extra loyalty points.
This created a perverse incentive for commercial banks to accumulate the bonds of the weaker member countries, which paid higher rates, in order to earn a few extra basis points.
