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The phrase "a tiny number of a second" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a very brief duration of time, often in contexts involving precision or measurement.
Example: "The experiment was so quick that it was completed in a tiny number of a second."
Alternatives: "a fraction of a second" or "an infinitesimal amount of time."
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Finally, if you really zoomed in, there was a third kind of company: A tiny number of opaque commodity traders (Glencore, Vitol, and Trafigura, for example) who basically acted as middle-men between the first two.
For the second straight month, the economy created only a tiny number of jobs — 18,000 in June, 25,000 in May.
This again is in a tiny number of cases.
For one, burglars are a tiny number of people.
A tiny number of tests show sex differences.
A tiny fraction of historical events and a tiny number of historical figures ever make it to bronze or marble.
Simply activating a tiny number of neurons can conjure an entire memory.
But so far it affects only a tiny number of people in these places.
The issue directly affects only a tiny number of students; no one knows how many.
Only a tiny number of tramps, criminals and conscription-dodgers slipped through the net.
We know Beckett's literary style now; in 1933, only a tiny number of people did.
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