Sentence examples for was no mean task from inspiring English sources
The work, he said, "was no mean task.
That was no mean task, given that most are themselves presidents of their countries' central banks, with their own administrations to command and constituencies to serve.
When Vladi started his business in 1975, selecting and outfitting an island for human habitation was no mean task.
Establishing and running a charity is no mean task.
After all, to make an old-fashioned crowd-pleaser is no mean task, requiring both folly and verve; and right now, I suspect, the crowd is ready to be pleased.
Trying to account for this "exception française" is no mean task, but I suspect it has something to do with the elevation of art to the status of surrogate religion during the second half of the 19th century.
In short, to reap the rewards of genomics, pharmaceutical firms are having to computerise and automate the process of drug discovery to a far greater extent than they ever have before.This is no mean task.
But that is no mean task, not least because whales are far too big to ever study in a laboratory.
After all, reducing the dependence on the not-so-desirable core tobacco business has proven to be no mean task.
Reorganizing the military and revamping its doctrine and strategy is no mean task.
