The phrase "a major idea" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a significant concept or theme in a particular context, such as an essay, presentation, or discussion.
Example: "In her analysis, she highlighted a major idea that challenged traditional views on the subject."
Alternatives: "a key concept" or "a significant notion."
Asked five years later to name "a major idea" of Nixon's that he had adopted," the president answered, in a tone of overwhelming boredom: "If you give me a week, I might think of one.
Few withheld their blessings as did the popular if remote Dwight Eisenhower, who, during the 1960 election, famously dissed his vice president, Richard Nixon, by saying he could come up with a major idea Nixon contributed if he had a week to think about it.
Eleey says Sturtevant "hit on a major idea whose radical implications are concealed by a simple visual fact".
This finding re-opens debate about the origin of clan AA but it is, in a way or another, consistent with a major idea; certain genetic units (retroelements and viruses included) of eukaryotes may have evolved from the recombination and assembling of minor genetic elements during the prokaryotic-eukaryotic transition, as proposed in [ 52, 53].
Set a daily goal, whether it is a word count, page count, or finishing a major idea.
Composed for an ensemble of wind, upper strings, piano and electric bass, it opens with an A-major idea that disarmingly recalls Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring.
Similar to the control group, about half of the experimental group chose to focus on the nature of science as a major theme for their lesson ideas.
After the team settles on their big storyline or major idea for a new adventure, they create a one-sheet breakdown of the story.
Commenting on the "big society", Williams, who steps down in December after 10 years in his post, writes: "Introduced in the runup to the last election as a major political idea for the coming generation, [it] has suffered from a lack of definition about the means by which such ideals can be realised.
"He really knows a lot about these characters and it is very rare that the head of the studio pitches a major story idea, and even more rare, that when it's pitched, it's... great".
A major incorrect idea related to equilibrium was that biological systems are at equilibrium.
