The phrase "a certain night" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific night that is not explicitly named or when the details are not important to the context.
Example: "On a certain night, the stars shone brighter than ever before."
Alternatives: "one particular night" or "a specific night".
Guy Lombardo can be nice on a certain night, but you're going to need Duke Ellington and Count Basie".
The movie makes much of a certain night in the late 1970's when Bundy talks a dialer in distress out of killing herself, keeping her on the hot line long enough for paramedics to arrive.
The teams were meeting for the sixth time in eight World Cups – but anyone wearing white in a crowd in nervous tumult wanting to draw inspiration from a certain night in Sydney in 2003 would have known before kick-off this is a very different England team to that of Johnno, Jonny and company.
This is how Tynan described the ideal critic's work: "His review is a letter addressed to the future; to people 30 years hence who may wonder exactly what it felt like to be in a certain playhouse on a certain night".
The venues themselves may also be able to post Plancasts when they have specials coming up on a certain night, for example.
You can sot any of the tabs by 'all events', 'today'thishis week', and 'this weekend' if you've got a certain night you're trying to fill.
A former Bostonian got a letter from one of his father's friends there, saying that he was coming to N. Y. on a brief business trip and suggested that the two of them get together on a certain evening.
This epilogue contains another indelible, sulfurous line: "Rereading the Declaration of Independence can be an uncomfortable exercise in the early 21st century," he writes, "for in a certain late afternoon light it can read like a declaration against ourselves".
How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it?
The New Yorker, January 7 , 1939P. 44 I had seen in the papers that on a certain afternoon it would be possible for anyone - anyone with six dollars - to visit half a dozen charming hostesses in their salons.
Thus, when a legislature has no legal power to sit beyond a certain midnight but has five hours more of work still to do, it is easier to turn back the official clock from time to time than it is to change the law or constitution.
