The phrase "and a certain ratio" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing proportions or relationships between quantities in various contexts, such as mathematics, science, or economics.
Example: "The recipe requires flour and a certain ratio of water to achieve the desired consistency."
Alternatives: "and a specific ratio" or "and a particular ratio".
Joy Division, New Order, Section 25, the Fall and A Certain Ratio are my favourites.
Scabrous guitar lines, side partings, a bit of stilted white funk, some Dadaist intellectual exotica - older listeners will find themselves back in the world once defined by the likes of Wire, Gang of Four and A Certain Ratio.
"The roots of this go back all the way to my involvement as a teenager in the Anti-Nazi League and on the periphery of RAR," said McDowell, whose musical influences include the Ramones, Patti Smith, Joy Division and A Certain Ratio.
The first wave happened 10 years earlier, was tied in with the dark, dour postpunk era and, as a consequence, was supremely uptight and (in tense – bands such as Talking Heads over there and A Certain Ratio over here exploring clubland's heart of darkness.
As I fan, I wanted everyone to be doing what Joy Division and A Certain Ratio were doing.
Mojo was the first to play prime-time Prince and A Certain Ratio, Funkadelic and Kraftwerk, Visage, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, the B-52s, Falco and even the French violinist Jean Luc Ponty.
Godfathers of the month: When people talk about the Madchester sound most of us think of electropop dance groups like New Order and Happy Mondays, but anyone worth their shit knows that UK's A Certain Ratio was the first band to bring the fuse dance and punk stylee.
Tony Wilson: The last conversation we had, which was at the Birmingham gig [2 May 1980], which was the last gig ever, was about how interested I was in his and [A Certain Ratio frontman] Simon Topping's use of archaic language.
It is demonstrated analytically and numerically that these properties are achieved by choosing a specific spatial rotational phase between successive cams, and by choosing a certain ratio between the number of wavelengths and cams along the device.
Such a practice is the core of lifen tiejin (沥粉贴金, embossed patterning and gilding), a technique during which chalk and drying oils are mixed in a certain ratio and filled into a container (such as pig's bladder), and then squeezed out for embossing through a small opening [27, 28].
The show would tell the story of Factory Records, its founder, Tony Wilson, and the rise and fall of bands including Joy Division, Buzzcocks, A Certain Ratio and Happy Mondays.
