The phrase "a fiscal time" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific period related to financial matters, such as budgeting or accounting cycles.
Example: "During a fiscal time, companies often review their financial performance and make necessary adjustments for the upcoming year."
Alternatives: "financial period" or "budgeting cycle".
But it has just become a fiscal time bomb.
The bottom line is that the flood insurance program is a fiscal time bomb for the government.
Medicare is a fiscal time bomb, unsustainable over the long haul and badly in need of major structural changes to save it.
The university sector is facing a "fiscal time bomb", the chairman of the Commons business committee has warned, after it was revealed that the government has dramatically revised down the proportion of student debt that will ever be repaid.
Now don't get me wrong: they're partially defusing a fiscal time-bomb they set themselves, so no one should mistake this for a great advance in bi-partisan fiscal policy.
"Basically, what we have here is a ticking fiscal time bomb," Judge Mitchell said during yesterday's hearing, the last of four held to explore the airline's request for emergency assistance.
You've got all these confident predications about budget deficit falling and right in the middle of that is a potential fiscal time bomb that doesn't seem to have been addressed".
Judge Stephen Mitchell said in issuing the ruling that the carrier's status constitutes "a ticking fiscal time bomb".
The financial-services industry, however, performs a kind of fiscal time travel by pooling the nation's collective savings and transforming it into all sorts of loans.
The governor said at a news conference in Manhattan, "The message we keep trying to deliver is that we are in a very difficult fiscal time, and so it's either going to be fare hikes or it's going to be tolls and a combination of payroll taxes, but it's the only way".
But if you care about the long-term health of the country, the president has more to answer for than just inventing a particular type of fiscal time bomb.
