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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a thin band of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a narrow strip or layer of something, often in a physical or metaphorical context.
Example: "The artist painted a thin band of gold along the edge of the canvas."
Alternatives: "a narrow strip of" or "a slim layer of".
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A thin band of cirrus was floating above it.
A small pumping artery had opened up in a thin band of muscle I'd cauterized.
A great swath of the ice shelf is being held in place by a thin band of ice.
It's a slender presence - a thin band of brick between the clouds and that deep, still harbour.
He has thick eyebrows, short greying hair, wrinkles beneath his brown eyes, and a thin band of stubble from ear to ear.
This is because French "suburbia" has never consisted of anything more than a thin band of residential development with a minimal retail commerce.
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Open image in new window Fig. 5 a Thin bands of 'spotty' red-brown-stained cements (yellow arrows) in the cores.
In addition, when the reaction was incubated with SUMO2, we visualized a thinner band of 70 75 kDa and additional higher molecular weight bands.
Layer II consists of a thin band containing an admixture of pyramidal and granular neurons.
The asteroid left behind many telltale traces, the most famous of which is the so-called iridium layer — a very thin band of sediment with anomalously high concentrations of the element.
Similar to control cells, Myo8A-GFP in drug-treated cells accumulates in the spindle midzone at anaphase and tightens into a thin band at the leading edge of the phragmoplast during cytokinesis.
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