The phrase "a tall task for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a challenging or difficult assignment or responsibility that someone is expected to undertake.
Example: "Completing the project in just one week is a tall task for our team, but we are determined to meet the deadline."
Alternatives: "a daunting challenge for" or "a significant undertaking for".
That's a tall task for a ball-and-X to accomplish.
Such a transformation is a tall task for someone who had never before run a public company.
Hitting the next one better proved a tall task for the other players who began the day with the trophy in their sights.
The Saudi government has used the IMF meetings to carry on a public-relations campaign, a tall task for a nation that does not treat women equally, where the extremist clerical establishment is strong, where executions are sometimes carried out by beheading, and where political opposition is tightly controlled and often suppressed.
But many see a tall task for Mr. Espaillat and the other challengers, in part because they could split the anti-Rangel vote and in part because Mr. Rangel, whose mother was black and his father Puerto Rican, already has established support among Hispanics.
Rebranding Spotify as a video service is a tall task for a startup still trying to stabilize its business model.
He replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath, and I'm not sure there was a taller task for a vocalist.
Even though Mrs. Lincoln dodged a loss Tuesday, that is going to be a taller task for her and many others come November.
But clearly she is banking that the new look will, perhaps subliminally, drive home the point that Xerox is, as she put it, "engaging and approachable" as well as "technologically savvy and eager to lead in the 21st century". That's a pretty tall task for a ball-and-X to accomplish.
Brown has a tall task in taking over for Jackson, who won 11 N.B.A. titles, five of them with the Lakers.
With no Rousey and viewership eroding, WWE could have a tall task establishing a formidable baseline for Fox's Friday night lineup in prime time come October.
