The phrase "a pattern of sorts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that resembles a pattern but may not fit a strict definition or is somewhat ambiguous.
Example: "The artist's work displayed a pattern of sorts, blending various styles and techniques that defied categorization."
Alternatives: "a kind of pattern" or "a type of pattern".
The market equilibrium features a pattern of sorting of coworkers across teams that is inefficiently positive.
Market conditions have recently deteriorated, leaving its offering and others in a holding pattern of sorts.
The same pin on the ULA is used to handle the video signal as well as the tape output, producing the stripes as an interference pattern of sorts.
Using revenue and metrics data from companies incubated, Science is trying to create a pattern recognition of sorts of what works in various verticals.
In addition, although A. melas presents four species-specific amino acid replacements at positions 2, 88, 110, 129 (which also contribute to the significance of MK test in the comparison with A. gambiae), these are shared with some A. arabiensis and A. quadriannulatus individuals, thus revealing again a pattern of incomplete lineage sorting also for this particular haplotype.
Thus the whole point of the Sieracki decision is turned around, and today's shipowner escapes his absolute duty because his vessel is modern and outfitted with complicated and dangerous equipment, and because a pattern of contracting out a sort of work on its has become established.
But in a year where populism is on the lips of every pundit, the GOP has lately fallen into a pattern of pissing on the sort of folks that BP's Swedish Chairman Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg's errant tongue called "the small people".
There is no hierarchy of hate crime or racist terrorism, but Page's massacre has a distinctive, sickening quality, set amid ignorance and reflecting a pattern of underpublicized bias of a sort that is often directed at the smallest of minority groups.
