The phrase "a bad set of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a collection or group of items, ideas, or conditions that are considered poor or undesirable.
Example: "The team faced a bad set of circumstances that hindered their progress on the project."
Alternatives: "a poor collection of" or "an unfavorable group of".
It wasn't a bad set of teachers he had either.
It is, if anything, the best of a bad set of options.
"The second set was a bad set of tennis for me," Murray said.
Not a bad set of principles to follow for a blog about use of language.
A bad set of trade figures just ahead of the election.
Ralf Schumacher attributed his defeat to a bad set of tires and slow pit stops.
The atomic race is not really a spiritual problem, although the spirit is always a help in any bad set of circumstances We think it's a philosophical, or to use a dirty word, Intellectual problem.
Like a few other European banks reporting this week, Lloyds Banking Group is doing its best to put a positive spin on a stunningly bad set of results.
Your teacher and determined classmates will encourage you to revise the topics you have been learning for the past semester or two to prepare you for your final exams; do not ever start an exam without revising the subjects you are requested to revise on, otherwise you could end up giving yourself a headache, a high stress level and, to make matters worse, a very bad set of grades.
Obama inherited an exceptionally bad set of situations -- a terrible economy, a deracinated political and media culture, a disastrously teetering geopolitical scene in which our poorly conceived and usually poorly executed adventures in the Islamic world triggered powerful reactions, including the decline of the stable dictatorships on which we've long hung our alliance hats.
"There is a very bad set of values that are embedded in the air because of performance reviews," he told me.
