The phrase "a formidable task that" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a challenging or difficult task that requires significant effort or skill.
Example: "Completing the project on time was a formidable task that required teamwork and dedication from everyone involved."
Alternatives: "a challenging task that" or "a daunting task that".
"That would be a formidable task that would take more money than Microsoft would be willing to commit," he said.
For the military effort in Afghanistan to succeed, the Pakistani military would have to establish control of much of that lawless territory: a formidable task that would require a new emphasis on counterinsurgency by the Pakistani military and a greater willingness on the part of Pakistani leaders, who may be distracted by the flare-up of tensions with India after the attacks in Mumbai last week.
It's a formidable task that will fall on the shoulders of the party's next presidential nominee.
Sequencing cancer genomes is a formidable task that requires expensive technologies and computational support to assemble large portions of the genome.
This is the formidable task that the British-born actress Susanna Hamnett and the director Edith Tankus have set for themselves — and accomplish with surprising brio and humor — in "Nearly Lear," an engaging solo show presented by the New Victory Theater at the Duke on 42nd Street.
For this formidable task, that is, the nondestructive disaggregation of protein aggregates, HSP100 chaperones work in combination with the HSP70/DnaK chaperone machinery.
There followed gut renovation of the main house, a formidable undertaking that cost $250,000 and involved, among many tasks, the removal of many Dumpsters' worth of trash.
Converting the enormous volume of existing serial programs to run in parallel is a formidable task, and one that is made even more difficult by the scarcity of programmers trained in parallel programming.
President Vladimir V. Putin, on a visit to the Ural region, said this week that restoring Chechnya's economy remained a formidable task, but he insisted that Russia was succeeding in restoring order to the republic.
He faces a formidable task, notwithstanding the accolades that have been tossed in the returning hero's direction.Typically, chief executives are given a few months' grace.
Now he faces a formidable task: beating a team that thrives this time of year.
