The phrase 'a scrape of' is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is a phrase that means a small quantity or amount of something, and can be used in a variety of contexts. For example, "She managed to save a scrape of money for a rainy day."
Let's spoil ourselves with a scrape of low-fat cheese spread on a dark rye cracker!
Instead he got into a scrape of his own on January 26th when he awarded a knighthood to Prince Philip, the husband of Australia's (British) head of state, Queen Elizabeth.
He listened at the walls, and through the sound of spasmodic barking imagined he heard a scrape of furniture or a groan or a sigh that could be human, but no voices to give proof, until the morning, when the volunteers began to arrive.
True-crime potboilers have always involved their fair share of science: the analysis of fibers from the blood-stained car, the DNA typing from a scrape of skin under the dead girl's fingernail, the pathologist's reconstruction of bullet trajectories from the body wounds.
Thus, Microsoft either builds a phone itself (there have been rumors), or it bolsters HTC (the only remaining OEM partner with more than a scrape of market share that isn't Nokia) to get a better grip on its platform.
All it will take to reproduce is a swab of the cheek, or a scrape of the skin, or some other way to collect a live cell carrying your DNA, and voila: a bouncing baby, without all that mess and fuss.
(Personally, I'm with too much butter and a scraping of Marmite).
Reaching a dead end, in 2003 he submitted a scraping of cells from the inside of his cheek to Oxford Ancestors.
Subscribers have to send in a scraping of cells from inside the cheek and a check for $985.
A colleague, Elaine Ostrander, gathered much of the dog DNA by persuading owners at dog shows to let her take a scraping of cells from inside the cheek.
Season with salt (having regard to the saltiness of the ham or bacon), pepper, and a scraping of nutmeg, and add the meat stock or water.
