The phrase "a certain inconsistency" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific but not clearly defined inconsistency in a situation, argument, or data set.
Example: "In reviewing the report, I noticed a certain inconsistency in the data that needs to be addressed before finalizing our conclusions."
Alternatives: "a particular inconsistency" or "some inconsistency".
"There's a certain inconsistency," Dr. Rader said.
There is perhaps a certain inconsistency here between the committee's attitudes to the homosexuals and the prostitutes.
Tony Nero, 58, owner/guardian of a yellow Lab named Sunny, noted a certain inconsistency in the city's near-mandatory spay and neutering policy.
Marina Hyde didn't quite accuse him of snatching biscuits from African children (honestly, our lawyers will barely let us write anything), but she did point out a certain inconsistency in regard to his personal affairs.
(The name is supposedly derived from "My Life Online," although there's a certain inconsistency to the harvesting of initials. Is Sony taking the first letter of each word? Then it should be MLO. Is it taking two letters? Then it would be MyLiOn, which sounds like a stuffed animal).
At current prices, that figure would be consistent with one in five South Korean men aged between 20 and 64 buying sex four times a month.Periodic crackdowns on Seoul's sex shops indicate that the government is aware of a certain inconsistency.
This vast increase in the volume and also the diversity (variety) of the data as well as the speed or velocity that these data are generated with along with the veracity, uncertainty of the data due to certain inconsistency or the ambiguity generated from such data makes it a Big Data problem by covering the main four characteristics of Big Data (volume, velocity, variety, veracity).
It has also become somewhat confused as a result of certain inconsistencies in approach.
In general, inner components were found to be required for the later assembly of outer components, although certain inconsistencies point to a higher complexity (Liu et al. 2006).
The book has also attracted the attention of biblical scholars who have noticed that, although Ezekiel appears to be a singularly homogeneous composition displaying a unity unusual for such a large prophetic work, it also displays, upon careful analysis, the problem of repetitions, certain inconsistencies and contradictions, and questions raised by terminological differences.
However, certain inconsistencies were reported in terms of strength development and durability properties of the PLC concrete.
