The phrase "a benign time" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a period that is gentle, kind, or not harmful, often in a reflective or nostalgic context.
Example: "Looking back, I remember that summer as a benign time, filled with laughter and carefree days."
Alternatives: "a peaceful time" or "a gentle period".
Ireland's modern growth came at a relatively benign time in the global economy.
"It was a benign, optimistic time, before 9/11 and the Iraq war, when peace and harmony was not thought to be impossible.
For example in the case that a lesion might be classified as melanoma two times and as a benign lesion three times, here the risk assumed to consider it as benign is too high and the doctors would recommend a biopsy to confirm or discard the diagnosis.
The book's sense of the exquisite is just as evident in the vision of this young lover's fate in Nazi Germany -- he went to it "wearing his dress clothes, a white silk scarf around his neck, a white rose pinned above the yellow star" -- as it is seductively conjuring benign times.
"The whole politics of Blair and Cameron looks like the product of more benign times".
IN BENIGN times Britain could smile remotely on its far-flung territories, sending the odd royal to fly the Union Flag.
Central and Eastern European countries know that the twists of history have not ended, that seemingly benign times can quickly turn ominous.
"What I say in the book is that when I ran with Goldman Sachs, even during benign times, I had felt the compensation in the industry seemed out of whack, and I would occasionally go off in partners meetings and say something to the effect, 'I hope you guys all understand,' and remind them, 'people don't like you.
Selection in utero implies, therefore, that gestations just above the criterion in benign times would end in more stressful times.
The ratio of male to female live births (i.e., the secondary sex ratio), moreover, reportedly falls in stressful times, with few exceptions (e.g., Stein et al. 2003), below that from cohorts in gestation during more benign times (Lyster 1974; Fukuda et al. 1998; Catalano 2003; Kemkes 2006; Catalano et al. 2008, 2009a; Saadat 2008; Helle et al. 2009).
