The phrase "a serious division between" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant disagreement or separation between two or more parties, groups, or ideas.
Example: "There is a serious division between the two political parties regarding the proposed legislation."
Alternatives: "a significant rift between" or "a major split between".
But Argentine society developed a serious division between the rural interior and the urban coast.
He's notionally coming out of dubstep, the dance music that's throbbed in Britain long enough to grow a serious division between its mainstream and its vanguard.
He conceded that the city had a serious division between blacks and the police, but he said that headlines about "15 blacks killed" by the police did not note that at least half of the victims had been accused of resisting with guns.
Cricketers from Sri Lanka and the West Indies also toured South Africa and received more stringent sanctions, and the engagement of English professionals as players and coaches in South Africa threatened a serious division between the Test-playing countries that ended only with the repeal of apartheid.
At the very least, empires tend to end up (as in the British case) with a serious division of interests between their financial and manufacturing sectors.
In 1916, there was a serious division in the Greek government between King Constantine I and Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos over whether Greece should enter World War I.
It is possible that a serious division over the proposed constitution could end up splitting the European Union.
But while there is general consensus in Congress on a need to help people who have lost their jobs, there are serious divisions between the parties over how long the benefit extension should be.
Very funny and entirely plausible, since there were serious divisions between the two women over issues ranging from the miners' strike to US use of British airbases for raids on Libya.
The self-reflexive dimension in no way makes light of the serious divisions between PM and monarch over issues ranging from sanctions against South Africa to the miners' strike and the importance of the Commonwealth.
ANTAKYA, Turkey — Even as the government of President Bashar al-Assad intensifies its crackdown inside Syria, differences over tactics and strategy are generating serious divisions between political and armed opposition factions that are weakening the fight against him, senior activists say.
