The phrase "a certain version" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific but unspecified version of something, often in contexts where the exact details are not important or are to be determined later.
Example: "In the discussion, we referred to a certain version of the software that had unique features."
Alternatives: "a particular version" or "a specific version".
We have overrated and fetishized a certain version of civility that is, in truth, not at all civic.
For instance, people with a certain version of a gene called ApoE are much less likely to develop Alzheimer's.
Although Ms. Quinlan's film is wistful for what was, it simultaneously conveys how enduring a certain version of authenticity is.
Anna Wintour has edited Vogue for more than two decades and, more recently, Joanna Coles took over Cosmopolitan, which defines a certain version of American womanhood.
I want to install a program on my computer, but it requires a certain version and service pack of Windows XP to run.
This chapter develops an analysis of a problem field for a possible psychology so that a certain version of the artificial intelligence/cognitive science program can actually be productive.
Do I need a certain edition or version of the book?
And in one sense, he's right: our book is an implicit condemnation of a certain, mainstream, version of English culture.
This, by the way, is what Glover appears to favour – he's not actually against equality per se, but against a certain (caricatured) version of equality (of outcome).
If a certain modified version of the Newtonian dynamics is used to describe the motion of bodies in a gravitational field (of a galaxy, say), the observational results are reproduced with no need to assume hidden mass in appreciable quantities.
Pasadena is a midsize city east of Los Angeles, known for its cultural institutions (the Huntington Library, the Norton Simon Museum, Caltech) and for having perfected a certain genteel version of the California good life (even with smog).
