The phrase "a sort of average" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that is not a precise average but rather an approximation or a generalization of an average value.
Example: "In this study, we calculated a sort of average based on the responses from various participants to get a better understanding of the overall sentiment."
Alternatives: "a kind of average" or "a type of average".
Therefore, these elements are usually tested under standardized loading conditions in order to detect a sort of average material behaviour.
The aim of this paper is to define a central spike train, an object which can be interpreted as a sort of average, but which is nonetheless a spike train.
In many applications implemented so far, it has been simply asked individuals to provide inputs, and then aggregated after-the-fact the inputs in a sort of "average sentiment" intelligence.
What they're doing is using multiple pictures of the same terrorist/innocent civilian to create a sort of average face, which in this case looks like you mapped Travolta onto one of the guys in Quake.
The way they tend to represent words is much simpler: it looks at all those different definitions of the word and comes up with a sort of average — a complex representation, to be sure, but not reflective of its true complexity.
To set the new stability record, Ludlow's team measured the exquisite regularity of their clocks — which shoot lasers at a lattice of 10,000 neutral atoms, obtaining a sort of average ticking rate across the group — by comparing two clocks' ticking rates to each other.
The result was a composite map of the DNA from several people-a sort of averaged genetic picture of a human.
And if you have paid the alternative tax in preceding years but now owe regular taxes, you may be able to claim an A.M.T. credit under a sort of averaging provision.
"He's managed to pull off the trick of getting recognized as a statesman and coming across as a sort of local average man standing on the terraces watching his Dublin football team," said Mr. Murphy.
The ABX index, a sort of Dow Jones Average of subprime mortgage securities, facilitated benchmarking the price of credit default swaps.
He presents more like an American suburbanite, the sort of average white male from a privileged background who tends to fetch up in middle management rather than the middle of a race war.
