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The phrase "a thin mat of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a layer or covering that is both thin and flat, often in relation to materials or substances.
Example: "The garden was covered with a thin mat of leaves that crunched underfoot."
Alternatives: "a thin layer of" or "a delicate sheet of".
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The creatures probably grazed on the decaying base of a thin mat of microbial life on the sea floor, says Pflüger, because the burrows follow the base of a thin veneer of darker sandstone that may be the remains of the mat.
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Hadjara sits on a thin mat on the floor of a therapeutic feeding centre in Aguie village, in the Maradi region of Niger – hit hard by the current food crisis.
I slept on a thin mat on a concrete floor.
You may want to have a mat made of foam underneath a thin mat.
Here, his photograph of a prostrate, bare-chested man with a thin mat over his face and torso seems like a bit of impromptu horsing around that would have earned André Breton's stamp of approval.
A square stepping exercise was performed on a thin mat with the instruction to step from one end of the mat to the other according to a step pattern provided, which could be made progressively more complex.
She lay on a thin mat, exhausted.
"We're going with a thin mat by the refrigerator.
He slept on a thin mat he would roll out on the floor.
They say: be zen, find peace, meditate, sit on a thin mat and say "ohm".
The disease index (DI) was classified into the following ten categories based on visual infection of the leaf: 0 = no or almost no symptom; 1 = faint spot; 2 3 = thin mat of mildew; 4 5 = thick mat of mildew; 6 7 = very thick mat of mildew; 8 9 = whole leaf surface coated with mildew.
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