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The phrase "a certain apprehension" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific feeling of unease or anxiety about a situation or event.
Example: "As the deadline approached, there was a certain apprehension among the team members about the project's outcome."
Alternatives: "a particular unease" or "a specific anxiety."
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But cue, too, a certain apprehension.
Although his cast of 23 is significantly smaller, Church admits to a certain apprehension about the scale of the project.
The show presents a number… Days before Tennessee Williams's 1967 chamber piece "The Two-Character Play" opened at New World Stages, I began to experience a certain apprehension.
Despite a certain apprehension in the days leading up to President Bush's announcement, many scientists seemed excited in spite of themselves.
My university friends were equally positive but I also sensed a certain apprehension about spending a year abroad in a multilingual region.
After a while, one realizes with a certain apprehension, Mr. Magee has a still bigger book in him, a comprehensive multivolume study of Wagner's intellectual and artistic achievement.
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Apart from a certain shared apprehension of immortality — complacent in one case, but endearingly gingerly in the other — the skinny 28-year-old on the cover of Patti Smith's seismic 1975 album, "Horses," doesn't look much at all like Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein.
This time people came of their own volition, and those on the losing side expressed a certain disappointment and apprehension.
When I watch Henry V, for the umpteenth time, I shall gaze into those brilliant enigmatic eyes with even more awe, and a certain amount of apprehension.
Indeed, as noted in Ruth Hardy's recent article Social care meets social media – what's holding the sector back?, the social care sector has shown a certain amount of apprehension when it comes to adopting social media technology.
Very often, I used to turn to classic works of literature with a certain degree of apprehension that it would bore the pants off me but would be good for me.
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