The phrase "a bit of bone" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a small piece or fragment of bone, often in a literal or metaphorical sense.
Example: "While examining the archaeological site, we discovered a bit of bone that could provide insights into the diet of the ancient inhabitants."
Alternatives: "a small piece of bone" or "a fragment of bone".
Give me a bit of bone or pottery any day.
Even when I'm sure he wanted to spit out a bit of bone marrow.
I explain how the previous week I had a scan on my own shoulder, a bit of bone had chipped off and it was removed with keyhole surgery.
"There was a bit of bone left on the other side of the eye from where it was taken from the animal.
Hardy hibiscus should be quite happy with one meal of compost and well-rotted manure and, if your soil is poor, a bit of bone meal, applied when growth starts in late spring.
Insert a bit of bone into a resplendent 13th-century silver-gilt bust of St. Eustace or a gem-studded, church-shaped shrine honoring St. Amandus, and you create a visual event, an aesthetic and spiritual encounter that a stimulus-hungry worshiper could respond to.
Yet still he could not resist a bit of bone-headed niggle against a younger opponent, which, had the referee seen it clearly, would more than likely have reduced his team to 14 men in their biggest game of the season.
This TV week kicks off with quite a bit of "Bones" drama.
The team shows that a bit of toe bone recovered at the site curves in a manner that is diagnostic of upright walking.
Whatever Opera's multi-threaded motivations, it has now thrown the ad industry a bit of a bone — with the promise of juicier meat, should it show it can truly reform its ways when it comes to key consumer issues such as page load speeds, page bloat, privacy and general ad trickery/annoyance.
I have had decent risotto in Los Angeles, but she's right: Angelo Auriana's rice dishes are marvelous things: In his soaring converted warehouse near the once and future 6th Street Bridge, risotto Milanese, as creamy and subtle as it might be at a trattoria in the Navigli, becomes almost magical when you spoon in a bit of roasted bone marrow.
