The phrase "an unlikely task" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a task that is not expected to succeed or is difficult to accomplish.
Example: "Completing the project within a week seemed like an unlikely task given the amount of work involved."
Alternatives: "a challenging task" or "a difficult undertaking."
The men – three British and one American – are members of an unlikely task force.
It takes place one night in early December, when his wife, Regina Beberfield, sprang an unlikely task on the city-bred Mr. Beberfield and the couple's young son.
And they probably won't, says Joel Achenbach, a staff writer at The Washington Post, who set himself an unlikely task: to write the story of something that does not exist but has vast numbers of people looking for it.
This meant that before moving her company, CG Industrial Safety Products, a distributor of environmental cleanup products, into the warehouse, Ms. Galloway had to spend days lugging car doors, tires and engine parts -- an unlikely task for someone who was introducing Pleasantville teenagers to Shakespeare as recently as 1995.
Martin's elevation of the pool noodle light saber from Mommy blog craft to fan fiction art form illustrates the fact that passionate -- sometimes absurdist -- dedication to an unlikely task can result in unexpected ingenuity, artistry, and craftsmanship.
I learned schematics of the assembly of a light saber". Martin's elevation of the pool noodle light saber from Mommy blog craft to fan fiction art form illustrates the fact that passionate -- sometimes absurdist -- dedication to an unlikely task can result in unexpected ingenuity, artistry, and craftsmanship.
In a broader sense the Parliament faces a most unlikely task, how to legislate away its own power.
Professor James Heckman, an economist with a Nobel Medal on his desk, has just accomplished the unlikely task of writing a Vox column that both camps will cite in the debate over what's wrong with America and how to fix it.He writes that America has a skills problem and that it arises from polarisation.
Some fare better than others: one awkward, throat-clearing dinner is saved only when hosts and guests conjoin for a communal rendition of "Summertime," while Khaled assumes the unlikely task of Pandarus, shepherding a young Israeli named Papi (Shlomi Avraham), huge of hair but shrunken of ego, through the agon of courtship at a roller-dancing rink.
But Kidd, whose intelligence had always been his hallmark, undertook the unlikely task of becoming a legitimate shooter.
Hall and his designer, Miriam Buether, have applied themselves ingeniously to the unlikely task of converting Hampstead theatre into a racing track.
