The phrase "a time called" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific period or moment in history or a narrative context.
Example: "In a time called the Renaissance, art and science flourished across Europe."
Alternatives: "an era known as" or "a period referred to as".
Zhang claimed to have received a revelation from the great sage Laozi and began to prophesy the coming of a time called Great Peace (Taiping).
Zhang, who began his career as a faith healer, claimed to have received a revelation from the Daoist sage Laozi and sought to inaugurate a time called Great Peace (Taiping).
His opus, "Infinite Jest," published by Little, Brown & Company in 1996, is set in the near future, in a time called the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment and is, roughly, about addiction and how the need for pleasure and entertainment can interfere with human connection.
"So the Jews and Italians, considered very foreign at the time of immigration by Henry Adams and others, were much less foreign by the 30s, hardly foreign at all by the 60s — they were then as white as other whites (for a time, called 'white ethnics')." Race and ethnicity, says Joel E. Cohen, professor of populations at Rockefeller University, are really about culture, not biology.
Pushing back animal origins by 100 million years places their beginnings during a time called Snowball Earth, when our planet was almost completely encased in ice.
Dial back the clock nearly 4 billion years, to a time called the Archean, and the sun would appear about 30% dimmer than it is now.
The Washington Post labelled the announcement a "landmark"; Time called it "historic".
Otherwise, the station selects a random time called backoff time.
It has been 15 years since we lived in a beautiful time called the '90s.
The important feature of DHCP is a "dynamic allocation" mechanism, which assigns an IP address to a client for a limited period of time (called a lease time).
The signal is then summarized over a user-defined time, called an epoch, into what are called "counts" [ 4].
