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The phrase "a dot of a" is not standard or commonly used in written English.
It may be used in a specific context to describe a very small amount or a tiny detail, but it lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "She added a dot of a color to the canvas to enhance the painting."
Alternatives: "a speck of" or "a hint of".
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Ms. McNeely, whose long, dark hair is gathered behind, is known as Maw for being a surrogate mother to many in Hensley, a dot of a community.
"I say, 'Let it.' " Marysville, a dot of a town in the mountains near Helena, was covered in gold dust in its heyday in the late 1800s.
No one comes by accident to Dana, a dot of a place that takes up less than half a square mile of Indiana's cornfield sprawl.
It is San Marino, a dot of a republic with about 30,000 people on a rocky mountain surrounded by Italy, not far from the Adriatic Sea.
Somewhere beyond them was a sky bluer than the ocean, and in that sky hovered a dot of a helicopter, ferrying visitors around the island on tours that cost hundreds of dollars.
* * * In Doolin, a dot of a town on the Atlantic coast a couple-of-hours' drive from Galway, we stayed at the Doolin Hotel in the middle of a small clutch of shops and a pizza place and an ice-cream store.
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Massive white spirals, centred on a dot of an eye, tracking across the turquoise.
Imagining yourself as a dot of light on a screen is oddly reassuring.
A dot of soy, a slice of kanpachi (young yellowtail), and there it is in front of me.
It's just a dot of light but it's a very special dot of light and maybe one day we'll get there".
Not a dot of data, not a fragment of an overheated e-mail message or a sad note of a Nick Drake song.
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