The word "remnants" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use the word "remnants" in contexts where you are referring to something that has been reduced or left over after something else has gone or disappeared. For example: "The remnants of the destroyed building were scattered across the street."
If Rupert Murdoch, Nigel Farage and a flip-flopping David Cameron succeed in that ambition, it will lead to the break-up of the UK with the remnants dependent on the US and our lives ruled by global corporations.
Early on, some scientists speculated that terra preta was the remnants of dead lakes.
Second, it will break up the last remnants of the national welfare state.
I count myself among their number, but feel I'm not alone in my dismay in witnessing the disgraceful behaviour of the current officials of the remnants of this great union in their efforts to humiliate Arthur Scargill.
Several others followed, tangled up with seaweed and accompanied by the wooden remnants of a boat.
These include the remnants of the Indian mujahideen, a series of linked groups that emerged around a decade ago.
He found a new companion, again an upper-class Haitian, and she and Duvalierist remnants in Haiti encouraged him to try for a political comeback.
Meanwhile, I'm enjoying the remnants of Guardian Australia's barbecue on Friday.
Dallas will hope the summit dispels any remnants of its 80s reputation for big hair and shoulder pads (just as they're becoming fashionable again, too) and underlines its ambitions as a cultural and technological hub.
In addition, Tanzania and Burundi are both part of the East African Federation, an ambitious political union seeking the resolution of refugee situations in order to distance the region from the remnants of its volatile past.
You can still make out the remnants of their looms in the half-light.
