The phrase "a certain history of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific but not precisely defined history related to a subject or topic.
Example: "The museum showcases a certain history of the region's cultural evolution over the centuries."
Alternatives: "a particular history of" or "an unspecified history of".
A proper Derby, Mr. Ha maintained, required a certain history of abuse.
In this procedure, a first in first out stack is used to store a certain history of the input output data to perform a truncated BPTT algorithm.
For me, it was also kind of talking about how you make a certain history of art visible".
Genetic prediction is mainly applied in the context of genetic counseling by predicting the risk of genetic disorders with known mono- or oligogenetic modes of inheritance and a certain history of cases in a known family structure, but accurate predictions of genetic predispositions to human diseases should also be useful for preventive and personalized medicine (de los C ampos et al. 2010).
But when you travel for fiction, you're putting yourself into the mind of someone who's not you; that character has a certain history or expectation of a country that's not mine.
"There are so many foreign owners now, and I've got nothing against that, but there is a certain history, traditions, almost a way of doing things that has almost gone out of the window".
I wondered but thought it would be futile to ask a man so enamoured with the history – or perhaps a certain type of history – of the Civil War.
These advertisements and emails specified the unacceptable conditions in individuals with regard to participation in the study such as handedness, the existence of metal in and around the body, claustrophobia, the use of certain drugs, a history of certain psychiatric and neurological diseases, and previous participation in related experiments.
SEX magazines may never have produced the equivalent of a Dashiell Hammett or a Jim Thompson, the way Black Mask and True Detective magazines did, but they are not without a certain storied history, much of it centered in New York.
There is, however, one slightly awkward issue for hard-core secularists who would combat what they see as a Christian whitewashing of American history: the Christian activists have a certain amount of history on their side.
"It's laid with a certain kind of history that's almost insurmountable.
