"such a plague" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe something or someone that is causing a great deal of trouble or annoyance. For example: - The mosquitoes in this area are such a plague. I can't go outside without getting bitten. - The construction noise next door has been such a plague for our peaceful neighborhood. - My coworker's constant complaining is such a plague in the workplace. It brings down everyone's morale.
Do you think such a plague exists right now?
In addition, one might point out, such a plague would mean the almost total collapse of the comic book industry.
What in the heck can we do about this problem that is such a plague on the world that just goes on, and on, and on?
Mines and unexploded ordnance have been such a plague for more than 20 years that many Afghans view them with a fatalistic acceptance.
Britain's aim should be to avoid such a plague, and to make London the cheapest centre to run any bank from.
The best and loftiest summary of the dilemma is to be found in Yeats' quatrain, with its ribald, Joycean pun in the final line: You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?
What about that time President Obama dared manifest a public opinion on a Supreme Court decision -- in this case, the Citizens United decision that's making the current election season such a plague-trench of negative ads funded by senile billionaires?
Thence I am come hither in a state of great misery". Then Antinous said, "What god can have sent such a pestilence to plague us during our dinner?
The reef will also be aided by an $89m boost to programs such as the Reef Trust, a Coalition plan to improve water quality and tackle threats such as a plague of starfish which has devoured much of the reef's coral.
People may have since adapted and developed effective medicines, but the scientists think that the Black Death was the first instance of Yersinia pestis in humans and this is what made it such a catastrophic plague.
"Such upstarts are like a plague for us," said one older Muslim woman.
