The word 'mite' is correct and can be used in written English.
It can refer to a small or tiny creature, such as a type of insect or spider, or it can be used as a unit of measurement equal to one millionth of a dollar. Example: The scientist used a microscope to observe the tiny mite crawling on the leaf. I only have a mite of money left in my savings account after paying all my bills.
18 min: Young midfielder Tom Carroll tries to clip the ball towards Jermain Defoe from the centre, but his delivery is also a mite too high.
But now I'm a mite confused.
America might no longer be able to meet its "irreducible" defence needs, such as winding down the Iraqi and Afghan wars responsibly, deterring Iran, hedging against a rising China, protecting the sea lanes and keeping terrorists at bay.All this sounds a mite alarmist.
But decline stopped short of disaster, because Leeds never depended on a single industry, as Sheffield did on steel or Bradford on cloth.In this section The new-look BBC Overreact in haste, repent at leisure Streets paved with brass Estimating her bequest What a carve-up A mite unfair Sick of waiting ReprintsFading industries have re-emerged in new guises.
In the same spirit, please inform the proof dearer of your sewn paper that I eagerly anticipate more word mages the next mite I relax in my living moor and nope your electronic pap on my paid.Harold Boas Professor of mathematics Texas A&M University College Station, Texas* Letter appears online only.
Its transfusions not only make thousands of sportsmen and women rich beyond the dreams of their predecessors (and most of the rest of us), but they also pay for training facilities, modern stadiums, full-time coaching and efficient administration.For some tastes, the authorities sing their new message a mite too loudly.
If nothing else, all the fuss might well pull in a bigger audience than usual for an occasion many Germans find, well, just a mite dull.
The foreign ministry is a mite less categorical: it says that Pakistan must take "tangible steps" towards ending terrorism before talking again.
The killer blow would then be administered by something else: a mite infestation, perhaps, or a fungal infection, or whatever else happened to turn up that a healthy hive would have shrugged off.
Mr Rentoul is a mite less generous, especially on the question of the Lib-Lab project.
But in this week's issue of Nature, Douglas Yu, a biologist at Imperial College, London, and Glenn Shepard, an anthropology student at the University of California, Berkeley, present findings that they hope will make the sociobiologists' arguments a mite less attractive.Dr Yu's research builds on the work of Devendra Singh, a psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin.
