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The phrase "a few tubes of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small quantity of items that are typically contained in tubes, such as toothpaste, paint, or ointment.
Example: "I need to buy a few tubes of toothpaste before our trip."
Alternatives: "several tubes of" or "a couple of tubes of".
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"It used to be that one of the volunteers would get a company to donate a few tubes of cheap lipstick," she said.
So I suppose you would have to say it was the compassionate art of medicine that impelled me to send him home to bed with an antibiotic instead, leaving behind a few tubes of blood and the promise that he would call in the morning.
So we kept a few tubes of VERO cells, as well as some of the newborn mice, which were dying.
Or would you keep a few tubes of Sudden in your desk, secure in the fact that it's better than what's in the break room and you can make it in a minute or two?
Also have a few tubes of lipgloss on you.
Buy a few tubes of lipstick, some eyeliner, eye shadow, and other products, sit down in front of a mirror in the privacy of your room, and try them all out.
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After 4 weeks, a few tubes yielded evidence of a slow-growing fungus; the fungus covered the entire tube by 8 weeks (Fig. 2A).
Trace levels of Pinaceae resin were found only in a few tube paints, and beeswax was detected in one example.
Computed hydrodynamic results compare well with experimental data (including the bubble frequency and size and the time-averaged porosity and pressure distributions) taken in a thin 'two-dimensional' rectangular fluidized beds containing a rectangular obstacle and a few-tube approximation of the International Energy Agency Grimethorpe tube bank 'C1' configuration.
There are adult and kids size tubes and a few double tubes to choose from along with a kids only lane about half way up the Tube Lift.
Remember that Earth is not like a laboratory with just a few test tubes; it has literally billions of square kilometers of reactive mineral surfaces, and hundreds of millions of years to get the results.It also has this richness of organic molecules that are reacting to those surfaces.
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