The phrase "a tiny shred of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a very small piece or fragment of something, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "She felt a tiny shred of hope as she read the encouraging message."
Alternatives: "a small piece of" or "a minuscule fragment of".
"She'd gone into prison as a force to be reckoned with and come out a tiny shred of aged mass.
There is a tiny shred of good news for Lehman Brothers, the beleaguered investment bank: one of the investments of its Healthcare Venture Capital arm, a biotech company called Fluidigm, is set to go public this week.
What, however, gives Bond's play a tiny shred of hope is the extraordinary final scene in which Len, who for much of the action has been Pam's punchbag, meticulously mends a chair.
This (click through, as the embedding doesn't seem to work) is spectacularly dumb: Leave aside the gratuitous insult to a visiting head of state and an ancient culture; I would only blog this if I had a tiny shred of linguistic analysis to add.
But there has to be a tiny shred of "Screw it, let's go for it," involved here.
There is at least a tiny shred of evidence then that there are at least some parts of the Android@Home project that haven't fallen victim to Google's "spring cleaning" program just yet.
I comb the news fifty times a day looking for updates, rocket locations and any tiny shred of information that might help me predict what might happen next.
" I wanted to leave him, ….., maybe the birth would calm him down, when he got the chance to hold the baby in his arms, maybe he would come to realize that … I hoped somehow that he would be overcome with some sort of fantastic feeling of love… the last tiny shred of hope that when he became a father, then he would … if anything was going to calm him down, it would be that" (I 6).
Um, do you mind if I ask if you have one tiny shred of evidence to back up that propagandistic term?
Revealing the plot of your story would give away that tiny shred of control -- or the illusion of control -- that you so desperately feel that you need just to get by.
Microplane's steel grating drum produces a cloud of tiny shreds of Parmesan, aged Manchego or pecorino, and unlike a vertical grater, uses almost the entire piece of cheese.
