The phrase "a tiny ring of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small circular object or formation, often in a physical or metaphorical context.
Example: "She wore a tiny ring of silver around her finger, glinting in the sunlight."
Alternatives: "a small circle of" or "a little band of".
Bilbo finds it: "His hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel".
This form of DNA consists of a tiny ring of hereditary material that actually lies outside the nucleus of the cell and is passed solely through the maternal line.
D-Wave Systems of Burnaby, Canada, has built a chip in which each spin is a tiny ring of superconducting metal in which current can run one way or the other or, thanks to the weirdness of quantum mechanics, both ways at once.
During a break from shooting, she swoops into an antiques shop called Dekker Antiquars on Spiegelgracht and spends $10,000 in what seems like seven minutes for a tiny ring, a pair of Art Nouveau earrings and a Victorian diamond bracelet.
Tech blogger, Robert McGregor, cut together a highlight reel of footage shot over several years of these squirrelly little robots shoving each other around a tiny ring like a pair of feral cats, and my shins hurt just looking at 'em.
You'll be left with a tiny ring, you can adjust the size if necessary.
► Disclosure of the clandestine peer-review ring that apparently permitted a tiny band of conspirators using fake e-mail identities to review each other's papers reveals "lax reviewing practice," as is noted in the title of colleague John Bohannon's Thursday ScienceInsider.
"This is a breakthrough for solid-state qubits," says Siyuan Han, a physicist at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, who is working on a different scheme for making qubits from tiny rings of superconductor.
This allowed the scientists to carefully study the tiny rings of dentin, which measure about a quarter of the width of a human hair, inside each tooth.
Dr. Wallace's tree is based on mitochondrial DNA, tiny rings of genetic material that are bequeathed only by the egg cell and thus through the maternal line.
The city also expects results from another company, Celera Genomics, that will focus on tiny rings of DNA in cell structures called mitochondria.
