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The phrase "a bit of mistake" is not correct in standard English.
The correct expression would typically be "a bit of a mistake" or simply "a mistake."
Example: "It was a bit of a mistake to assume everyone would agree with the plan."
Alternatives: "a small error" or "a minor mistake."
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THOMPSON (smugly): He made a bit of a mistake.
Was the whole thing just a bit of a mistake?
You're making a bit of a mistake there, ha, ha.
In fact, the whole ban thing might have been a bit of a mistake, he seemed to be implying.
Michael Eavis, the festival's founder, later described the decision to book them as "a bit of a mistake".
Celestial Halo made a bit of a mistake at the last, he pricked his ears a bit but kept going to the line".
"He says he made a bit of a mistake, and I'll take him at his word," England's coach, Andy Flower, told the BBC.
I've made a bit of a mistake here.'" Davis is sanguine about her occasionally fraught on-set encounters: "It's always an act of faith.
Eavis said he was cross about the booking, which he said was "a bit of a mistake" and out of his hands.
I felt it was a bit of a mistake because he was too young and too good looking, but what the hell.
"I think it's a bit of a mistake to assume that the inflation genie has been put back in the bottle," said Michael T. Darda, chief economist for MKM Partners, a hedge fund firm based in Greenwich, Conn.
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