The phrase "a considerable history" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has a significant or substantial past or background.
Example: "The city has a considerable history, dating back to the early 18th century when it was first established."
Alternatives: "a significant history" or "a substantial history".
But both of those institutions have a considerable history behind them.
Honfleur Pretty-as-a-picture fishing harbour and much-loved haunt of the Impressionists, Honfleur is also a port with a considerable history.
Founded by King Gustaf II Adolf in 1621, Goteborg has a considerable history in international relations, starting with the city's raison d'être, which was to get the Danes off Sweden's west coast.
Here I thought I could help, because in the late 1970s I had begun researching Stravinsky's music from a historical rather than inferential perspective, and I knew something that Mr. Berger and Mr. van den Toorn didn't know: that the octatonic scale actually had a considerable history in Russia, where it was known (drumroll, please) as the Rimsky-Korsakov scale.
It is certain that well before the 15th century there existed texts in a typically Bengali genre called maṅgal-kāvya ("poetry of an auspicious happening"), which consists of eulogies of gods and goddesses; such poetry is likely to have had a considerable history in oral transmission before it was committed to writing.
Attempts to synthesize monodisperse populations on a rational basis have a considerable history.
Vitra, which had retreated for years into the office furniture business, made a point of reminding the crowds of its considerable history as a provider of domestic comforts (not least with a gallery of greatest living-room hits by the Eameses and others).
Australia are entering into the spirit of things and dipping their toes in a football region of considerable history and intense rivalry.
Although El Quijote, the restaurant-bar next to the hotel, had its own considerable history, another drinking establishment with a reputation as a writers' hangout, the White Horse Tavern, is memorably connected with the Chelsea.
Indiana is so much more than its media-driven clichés, and while its plate overflows with essential issues that beg for proactivity, Indiana is a state with a considerable creative history, where the arts are alive and hanging in there.
Chronic bronchitics had chronic respiratory complaints for at least 3 months during the past two years but no obstruction, while 'healthy smokers' had a considerable smoking history but no chronic respiratory complaints.
