The phrase "a lunar cycle" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the period of time it takes for the moon to complete one full orbit around the Earth, typically about 29.5 days.
Example: "The farmers planned their planting schedule according to a lunar cycle, believing it would yield better crops."
Alternatives: "a moon phase" or "a lunar month".
"I mean, surfing for a lunar cycle, no one's ever even come close to that.
Lecter is in prison, but a killer is attacking families in their homes on a lunar cycle.
"I remember my professor saying to me, 'What man in the world would need to note a lunar cycle?' I decided there were gaps on the history shelves.
Mr. Rushkoff, who likes being his own guinea pig, divided his writing of this book into weekly segments based on a lunar cycle.
With one of us finally implanted in the White House and the other wearing a Miss USA tiara, minarets on the Capitol and a burqa-clad Hillary Clinton were only a lunar cycle away.
She said her anthropology professor at Cambridge was an influential figure who had encouraged her to question the way women had been erased from history, starting with the Ishango bone, with the very first recorded markings of a lunar cycle, famously proclaimed as "man's first attempt at a calendar".
But what happened next was even more strange, and far more disturbing: According to the Escambia County Sheriff's Office, all three of the Smiths were murdered in a ritualistic fashion that might have something to do with the recent "blue moon" (an extra full moon in a given lunar cycle).
Nonplayer characters (NPCs) could converse more realistically, and Britannia was now a fully realized world, with shifting winds and a predictable lunar cycle.
Red Dragon the novel takes place over the course of a single lunar cycle, ending with Dolarhyde trying to murder Will's family and in turn being killed by Molly.
The Egyptian lunar calendar, the older of the two systems, consisted of twelve months whose duration differed according to the length of a full lunar cycle (normally 29 or 30 days).
The Egyptian lunar calendar, the older of the two systems, consisted of twelve months whose duration differed according to the length of a full lunar cycle (normally 28 or 29 days).
