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The phrase "a cruel time" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a period characterized by hardship, suffering, or harsh conditions.
Example: "During the war, it was a cruel time for the families who lost their homes and loved ones."
Alternatives: "a harsh period" or "a difficult era".
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It was a cruel time".
It was a cruel time filled with many false rumours.
Infected hemophiliacs also say they feel caught in a cruel time warp.
It has regularly been a cruel time of the year for Warren Gatland's side, 2009 against Samoa their last autumn international success.
It was a cruel time". Today workers are allowed to live in the village of Chernobyl, but for no more than four days at a time.
"Here is Kataev, 'The Man Who Could Stop Time' — if you want to taste a grape in 1910, open his book and you can do it," she said, adding, "It was a cruel time, many died young".
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I don't know if today is a crueler time — we've done a pretty good job as a society over the millennia of being unkind — but we've never lived in a time with this speed and constant barrage of shockingly unkind, unempathetic behavior.
It was a cruel, cruel time.
Those names stuck through junior high: a frenetic, cruel time.
Blessed with the old thunderous fists, but cursed now with a sense of his own mortality, the Bad Ass is a revelation in disappointment, a living monument to cruel time and humanizing loss.
Anyone who wants to erase the effects of cruel time will be booking the next bus to Bountiful.
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