The phrase "a cumbersome formula" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a formula that is complicated, unwieldy, or difficult to work with.
Example: "The researchers struggled to apply the cumbersome formula to their calculations, leading to errors in their results."
Alternatives: "a complicated formula" or "an unwieldy formula".
However, in reality our drinks are far stronger than in 1985, come in larger measures and the only reliable way for us to know how much we have drunk is to use a cumbersome formula, multiplying the number of millilitres we consume by the drink's percentage proof (alcohol by volume or ABV%) and then dividing by 1,000.
Under the league's proposals, outside consultants would have to register with the government once they make a single lobbying contact with the government for a particular client; that standard would replace a cumbersome formula that now takes into account whether 20 percent of a consultant's time for a client is devoted to lobbying.
He again asked the Legislature to streamline the cumbersome formulas for allotting aid to schools.
In a similar form, by using operators on L π E Open image in new window, we can formulate them in component form on Lie N-algebroids (we omit in this work such cumbersome formulas).
The measure passed today, based on an American formula, involves a cumbersome compromise in which both Cambodian and foreign prosecutors and judges would jointly select the defendants and jointly reach their verdicts.
Remark 4 Real sequences applicable in Theorem CZ are λ n = 1 ( n + 1 ) a, θ n = 1 ( n + 1 ) b, where 0 < b < a and a + b < 1. Remark 5 We have shown in this section that a cumbersome recurrence relation is desirable and introduced only when a simpler recurrence formula is not available for the class of mappings under consideration.
Why create a cumbersome bureaucracy?
It was a cumbersome and costly process.
The Department of Homeland Security is a cumbersome bureaucratic monster.
Complicating matters is a cumbersome bureaucracy.
He wore a cumbersome white neck brace.
