The phrase "thread of evidence" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when speaking or writing about a line of logic or proof that supports a certain conclusion. For example: "As the investigation progressed, the detectives followed the thread of evidence that eventually led them to the suspect."
Estimates of Putin's wealth lack even the smallest thread of evidence.
Researchers have in fact laid down a fragile thread of evidence, publishing several small studies in just the past year of children identified with sensory processing problems and normal I.Q.'s — that is, no developmental problems.
The gentleman argues that "the consensus view of the respective groups of every advanced nation on climate change cannot be ignored while we wait for an unobtainable golden thread of evidence".If the science behind the theory is sound, why is this evidence "unobtainable"; we are dealing with physical matter are we not?
As to the West Nile Virus theory, I understand it is connected with a phenomenon of mass bird deaths that was noticed in the area of Babylon in the Spring of 323, which seems to me a slender thread of evidence.
The threads of evidence usually seem separate and sure only because life mostly comes at us in finished fabrics, and nothing requires us to pull the thread.
The best archaeological theorizing uses amazing powers of deduction to weave slender threads of evidence into convincing reconstructions of past lives.
But he said the result was inconclusive, adding, "We found some threads of evidence about how cancer might occur but have to acknowledge gaps and uncertainties".
The various threads of evidence highlight the potential role of criticism within different areas of the cognitive model of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) with often overlapping ideas.
The conclusion that Moscow had somehow penetrated the American government -- perhaps with a well-placed mole or some other intelligence technique -- was drawn by these officials from older threads of evidence in a series of seemingly unrelated breakdowns.
Working with only the slightest threads of evidence — two brief 1946 clippings from the local newspaper and Spann's death certificate — Wilkerson finds that his investigation is far from a mere footnote; it expands to touch on the historic while encountering history's enduring force in the present day.
Weaving all these various threads of evidence together into something cohesive can be an overwhelming task.
