The phrase "a terrible set of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a collection of items, situations, or conditions that are considered very poor or unsatisfactory.
Example: "The team faced a terrible set of challenges during the project, which made it difficult to meet the deadline."
Alternatives: "a dreadful collection of" or "an awful group of".
That is definitely a terrible set of facts on the ground that we try to deal with every single day.
The two of them get closer as things get hairier but a terrible set of circumstances force them apart.
I do think coming to the aid of people who are under assault, it is conceivable that there would be people threatened with a terrible set of events, some sort of near-genocidal approach, that we could stop militarily and there are cases when I think it would be useful even if it wasn't necessarily in our interests.
The other option is that you kill the child who's a totally innocent victim in this terrible set of circumstances".
This otherwise terrible set of events brings forth the opportunity for us to re-evaluate what truly matters.
For the second half, for the first time in my life, as far as I can recall, I genuinely laughed and cried at the exact same time, bewildered at the tragedy and the remarkably calm, clever prism through which she assessed her terrible set of circumstances.
There's a lake; there's a bar; there are a set of terrible crimes.
"We believe this would set a terrible precedent of unfairly singling out a specific company and a particular form of advertising for a politically popular reason," the Congress members, all Democrats, said in a letter to Geithner.
It is a terrible misreading of Go Set A Watchman to claim that it recasts, transforms, or turns Atticus into a racist.
He added depth to the role of a child growing up fast amid an escalating set of terrible circumstances.
Back in 1996, Bill Clinton's strategy "worked" (he got a second term), but it produced a long-term set of terrible public policies that proved disastrous for the country and for the Democratic Party (unless you think losing the House, the Senate, and the White House is a "success").
