The phrase "a nick of" is not commonly used in written English and may not be considered correct in standard contexts.
It can be used informally to refer to a small cut or notch, but it is not widely recognized.
Example: "He got a nick of his finger while chopping vegetables."
Alternatives: "a small cut" or "a tiny notch".
Prior is then up to claim a nick of Pathan, but the umpire waves his appeal away.
The need for strong resistance was underscored after the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a statement that a milder version of mutilation — a nick of a girl's genitals done in a doctor's office — should be made legal in the United States as a way to prevent families from taking children abroad for the full brutal procedure.
If they didn't get there in a nick of time, I would've definitely been in worse shape.
It was shown earlier that Tdp1 shows preference to remove a tyrosine residue from the ends of single- or double-stranded DNA substrates in vitro rather than tyrosine located at a nick of duplex DNA [1 4].
After binding, the RAG complex makes a nick 5' of the RSS heptamer sequence.
Weir says a nick on the milling pattern of a modern putter face can throw hundreds of putts off line.
All circular substrates contained a nick 5′ of the slip-out and modeled expansion intermediates (the nick was on the slipped-out strand).
Moreover, because DNA containing a cross-linked DOB already contains a nick, cleavage of the ICL on the bottom strand converts the substrate into a double-strand break.
Overall, the protein responsible for creation of a nick in the absence of MutH to initiate mismatch repair has been identified.
Most unforgivable of all, Spoorloos's terrifying, uncompromising ending was junked for an offensively pat nick-of-time rescue.
Most unbiassed observers feel the Conservatives will win, possibly with a nick taken out of their majority.
