The phrase "a certain major" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific but unnamed individual who holds a significant rank or position, often in a military or academic context.
Example: "During the meeting, a certain major presented a compelling argument for the new strategy."
Alternatives: "a particular officer" or "an unnamed leader".
"A certain major label won't let me use any samples I ask them to.
But my first clue that a certain major appliance did not like living here was the repeated mechanical failures.
By Yiyun Li "Here's a fact for you America-philes," a certain Major Tang, in the Army in which I had once served, liked to say when he caught us memorizing English vocabulary.
"Here's a fact for you America-philes," a certain Major Tang, in the Army in which I had once served, liked to say when he caught us memorizing English vocabulary.
"We understand you're a professional hunter, done your share of bush bashing, been through a scrape or two, Abyssinia or wherever, sort of chap we're after, really," a certain Major Lagnold tells Rider while recruiting him to do desert scouting in the North Africa campaign.
Reading three hundred and fifteen books as a fiction… "Here's a fact for you America-philes," a certain Major Tang, in the Army in which I had once served, liked to say when he caught… At lunch, Zichen told her two co workers that she was considering going to a new place for her vacation.
As the Lepidoptera developed into a distinctive group, certain major trends began to be emphasized.
The Insider column in Business Day on Dec. 9 about a securities law, known as the short-swing rule, that enables a company to sue certain major stakeholders for short-term profits if the investor bought and sold within a six-month period described that law imprecisely.
This explanatory power also provided Darwin with a means of defeating certain major objections, such as those drawn from the existence of organs of great complication and function.
Bathymetric data obtained during the course of the Challenger expedition enabled scientists to draw maps, which provided a rough outline of certain major submarine terrain features, such as the edge of the continental shelves and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Mid-Atlantic Ridge
For my first fifty years the media was restricted to a few major television and radio stations, certain major newspapers, and a handful of important magazines.
