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The phrase "a scratch of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a small mark or injury on a surface or skin, often implying a minor or superficial damage.
Example: "After the hike, I noticed a scratch of dirt on my arm from the branches I brushed against."
Alternatives: "a mark of" or "a trace of".
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"You need a scratch of luck," Dyche said.
Even the humble word brush gives off a scratch of light.
Boss Dyche said: "You need a scratch of luck and we got that with the goal.
Just ahead, I could make out the runway – a scratch of red dirt among endless florets of green trees.
Whisk the ricotta with sugar, 2 eggs and 1 yolk, cream, ½ the lemon zest, and a scratch of fresh nutmeg.
Last month, it paid about $1 billion for Instagram, a mobile photo-sharing application that has plenty of users but not a scratch of revenue.
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I didn't get a scratch on any of those assignments.
A scratching of the surface reveals why that is far more legitimate than expectation.
And that's merely a scratching of the operatic surface; I haven't even mentioned Monteverdi, without whom none of the above could have happened.
Using a feed of 40 nm and normal load of 15.8 μN for a scratching of angle 0° and load of 14.8 μN for a scratching angle of 45°, we formed ripples with a period of 450 nm.
A cracking region caused by a scratching of a needle reveals that the NLC is a typical multilayered structure with four layers, as indicated by arrows in Figure 1b.
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