The phrase "a rough kind of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is not precise or is a general approximation of a category or type.
Example: "He gave a rough kind of estimate for the project costs, knowing that the final numbers would vary."
Alternatives: "a vague sort of" or "an approximate type of".
She never finds her, but she does receive a rough kind of mothering from a streetwalker, Marie.
"Just before I started playing with John, I'd had a rough kind of couple years," said Murray, admitting he had been close to quitting at that time.
And then I think about 2006" — when he lost to Federer in the final — "just as much, because I was in a rough kind of career transition that summer.
It makes a rough kind of sense, until you actually see the plays on stage and realise that naturalism and romanticism were always fighting a battle for dominance inside Ibsen's Nordic soul.
Fired up by early rock'n'roll, their lyrical landscape was one of girls, drink and the estuary industry around which they grew up: real life with a rough kind of glamour, stripped down to brass tacks.
Perhaps, as with the elements of matter, investigation passes a threshold of common sense and enters a sub-atomic realm where laws are mocked, where persons have the life-span of beta particles and the transparency of neutrinos, and where a rough kind of averaging out must substitute for absolute truth.
We are talking here about providing a very rough kind of measurement, the assignment of a single summary score on, say, a seventh grader's essay, not commentary on the use of metaphor in a college senior's creative writing seminar.
I began reading true crime books looking for that rough kind of detective--like the guy who questioned me.
"I'm a rough-it kind of guy," he said recently, "but I like my amenities as well.
Red and blue are both colors, but different from rough (a kind of texture) and knowledge of grammar (a kind of knowledge).
The campers were then taught how to refine the wool with a carder, a kind of rough brush, an activity that Ms. Hegginson compared to brushing tangled hair.
