The phrase "a mite of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a small amount or degree of something, often in a somewhat informal or whimsical context.
Example: "She was feeling a mite of sadness after hearing the news."
Alternatives: "a bit of" or "a small amount of".
She, without a mite of colour in her face, walking as if on eggshells.
For that we riced cream cheese, added a mite of heavy cream, chopped chives, candied ginger or nuts, and poured this over the pear halves on lettuce.
These laws are more than 40 years old, created when party bosses ceded a mite of power in the name of reform.
Using computer simulations based on data from the Hubble telescope, the enveloping scrim of the traditional planetarium's sky is ripped aside, revealing a stunning three-dimensional cosmos in which Earth is a mite of stardust.
When Kumari Pidse, a mite of a government health worker in Mangata, in Chattisgarh State, approaches a man about a vasectomy, the answer is always the same: "Take my wife".
The Dodgers, after losing the opening game at Yankee Stadium, indulged in a mite of taunting the next day after they'd dispatched the Yanks' celebrated starter Catfish Hunter in three innings, knocking four home runs in their 6-1 win.
As a marksman Batty has always fallen a mite short of William Tell and Roa kept out his poorly directed kick.
One need only glance at recent superstar efforts the turns toward durational performance, the app-album effrontery to grow a mite suspicious of music makers' truest intent. .
Varroa destructor, a parasitic mite of honey bees, is also a vector for viral diseases.
However, three trypsin-like genes, trypsin 13, 14 and 15, did not show similarities with insect species, but displayed the highest sequence identity with Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, a dust mite of non-insect arthropods.
To calculate the average sequence divergence of a MITE family, the consensus sequence of each family was constructed.
