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The phrase "a man was needed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are indicating that a male individual was required for a specific task or situation.
Example: "During the emergency, it became clear that a man was needed to lift the heavy equipment."
Alternatives: "a person was required" or "someone was necessary."
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There was no alternative, it was said then, and a strong man was needed to hold Congo together.
Stephen Douglass, the American actor playing Billy Bigelow in Carousel, had exhausted his work permit and a new lead man was needed.
A tribute to the man is needed.
A sort of ecology of man is needed...
Only two siege engines and a few hundred men were needed to reduce it.
A larger study with more men is needed to clarify the gender differences in the relationships between obesity and body composition measures and femoral head cartilage properties.
Mounted on a set of airplanes tires, six men are needed to handle it on the field.
Future studies of the clinical pathways precluding the decision to perform a cardiac catheterisation in women and men are needed to clarify the basis of the sex-related gap in invasive handling of patients with ACS.
Sometimes a hard man is need prepared to take hard decisions if the masses are to be prevented from trashing the environment.
Crown Prince Philippe, 52, had been depicted in a book as less of a man than is needed to become the next king of Belgium.
A grand gesture was needed from a man not given to public displays.
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