The phrase "a major divide between" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant difference or gap between two or more entities, ideas, or groups.
Example: "There is a major divide between urban and rural communities in terms of access to healthcare."
Alternatives: "a significant gap between" or "a substantial difference between".
"There's a major divide between the rich and the poor in this country," he said.
American defense officials acknowledged there was a major divide between Mr. Karzai's demand and American goals of training and advising Afghan security forces as well as conducting counterinsurgency operations, which require close working relationships with Afghans in the rural areas where most of them live.
Hierarchical NMF is able to discover a major divide between property and violent crime, but below this first level the differences between crime topics hinge on quite subtle distinctions.
In the HuffPost/YouGov poll, both questions revealed a major divide between younger and older Americans, which is also found in polls on the broader issue of legalizing same-sex marriage.
Findings indicate a major divide in the data between topic-oriented and author-oriented reviews.
A major divide in twentieth-century art is between those who got the fifties and couldn't get the sixties and those who got both.
That question risks causing a major divide in the Five Eyes - the intelligence alliance between the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The Balkan Mountains form the major divide between the Danube River (north) and the Maritsa River (south) and are crossed by about 20 passes (notably Shipka Pass), by several railway lines, and by the Iskŭr River.
One major divide lay between children's librarians, epitomized by the daunting Anne Carroll Moore, the New York Public Library's first children's director, and progressive educators, led by Lucy Sprague Mitchell, who ran the experimental Greenwich Village school now known as Bank Street.
This warning epitomizes what may be considered the major dividing line between Legalists and their opponents.
There's a gap, a chasm, a divide, between them.
