The phrase "a distinctive difference in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a notable or unique contrast between two or more things.
Example: "There is a distinctive difference in the flavor profiles of these two wines, making each one unique."
Alternatives: "a notable distinction in" or "a clear contrast in".
Several of these parental biological processes were highly tissue-specific as a distinctive difference in the proportion of over-represented biological processes was observed between the different tissues.
A distinctive difference in microbial diversity was observed between the two groups.
We mean with a distinctive difference in emission spectra above 525 nm that the contribution of the ACL is smaller than the contribution of bone and cartilage.
Such an approach is extremely valuable, particularly when designing features by hand is challenging, and the timbre is an example where it is difficult to determine a distinctive difference in a sound spectrum by observation.
Interestingly, there was a distinctive difference in segregation in these dyads.
The two investigated ovarian cancer cell lines showed a distinctive difference in the number of expressed MMPs (2 vs. 10).
During diethylnitrosamine (DEN) administration, a distinctive difference was observed between rats and guinea-pigs in the sequence of ultrastructural changes in the hepatic endoplasmic reticulum (ER).
In addition, if a teacher finds that a program has a distinctive difference from the standard algorithm, he/she may want to search for the same distinctive point in other students' programs.
Europe, in the post-World War II years, came to realize that there was a distinctive difference between being left alone and being forgotten.
There is distinctive difference in the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) between fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) bar and surrounding mass, which may generate great transverse thermal pressure at their interface and cause significant reduction in bond strength of FRP tendon.
Because both approaches are technically not practicable, as elaborated in the discussion, we decided to focus on the small but distinctive difference in emission spectra above 525 nm between the insertion site and its surroundings for a fixed excitation wavelength of 390 ± 20 nm (Fig. 3).
