The phrase "a faint layer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a thin or subtle covering of something, often in contexts related to art, nature, or physical phenomena.
Example: "The artist applied a faint layer of paint to create a soft, ethereal effect in the background."
Alternatives: "a thin layer" or "a subtle layer".
Tay-lor!," Swift appeared, in a baggy pink striped sweater, her hair in loose braids and her skin showing a faint layer of sweat.
Her two friends at school are the timid Lily Chin, who "had a faint layer of dark down all over her body, like a baby animal," and the ostracized Bobby Castillo, who forms an unofficial anti-mean-people club with Weetzie.
One can observe (left to right) dermis layer, bright-green viable epidermis layer populated by cells, with discernible dark round nuclei, and a faint layer of SC, with a white contour roughly outlining the sample boundary.
(While "Early Shaker Spirituals" is low-tech by Wooster standards, it is not no-tech; the modest Shakeresque clothing the women wear is accessorized with audio equipment). We in the audience can detect only a faint under-layer of the original recorded sound.
To start the analysis, we made sure that the summed power spectrum of each subdataset showed a faint (usually fuzzy) layer line at the position of the first meridional line (layer line 9; Figure 1 figure supplement 1A, Figure 4 figure supplement 1B).
Immunohistochemistry with monoclonal antibody Em2G11 raised against an E. multilocularis laminated layer antigen (Em2) (6 ) showed a faint and patchy pattern of the laminated layer in the E. vogeli lesion.
In other cortical areas (e.g. somatosensory, auditory, motor cortices), KCC2 expression was absent except a faint neuropil labelling in the layer 1 (Fig. 1a4).
Normal oesophageal squamous epithelium had only a faint Hsp90 expression of the basal cell layer.
Regarding the protein (Figure 1D), γ-wt was undetectable in bladder muscular and mucosa layers, while in the intestinal tract, a faint and discontinuous immunostaining was restricted to the mucosa and excludes the muscular layer (Figure 1Diii).
There's a faint new wave feel to the gauzy layers of synths draped over some of the material, yet mostly it's her own, stage-toughened sound, deconstructed R&B fighting it out with spiky rock.
There was a faint expression of hScrib only in the upper layer of the epithelia of H-SIL.
