'a certain tendency for' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an inclination or tendency for something. For example, "The new task revealed a certain tendency for workers to overestimate their abilities."
"There has become a certain tendency for an opposition party to say, 'You guys are not doing enough or are not doing it fast enough or are not doing it well enough,' " Dr. Koplan said.
But I bring it up to demonstrate that in Slovakia there was a certain tendency for these ideologically different groups to lead a dialogue with compromises.
Our study showed that one third of all protein domains have a statistically significant linear correlation between the evolutionary distance and the domain/spacer sizes and moreover, there is a certain tendency for domain/spacer sizes to increase with evolutionary distance.
There seems a certain tendency of higher positive biases under higher significant wave height.
During weekday afternoons, it was observed that there is a certain tendency that small groups are gathering in certain spots waiting for their mates as well as for transportation pick up.
There is a certain tendency to pre-judge what audiences want: "Our audiences are mostly older rural people and this is too off the wall for them".
These results suggest that for neither network the edge type has a systematic effect on its inference (for a significance level of α = 0.01), although, the DAG network shows a certain tendency toward it.
However, based on the frailty and other risk factors, it seems that the MAPLe-AC algorithm can set priority levels for acute care patients, and there is certain tendency for predicting the discharge destination or death during one year.
Domains from several Gene Ontology categories also demonstrate certain tendencies for insertion or deletion events as inferred from the analysis of spacer sizes.
You also identified a certain Jacobin tendency in Solidarity early on.
