The phrase "a sort of case" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that resembles or is similar to a case, but may not fit the exact definition of one.
Example: "In this situation, we have a sort of case that requires further investigation to determine the facts."
Alternatives: "a kind of case" or "a type of case".
One way in which we might improve and standardise our methods is by taking a leaf out of clinical trial research and using a sort of case report form (CRF).
Britain's biggest ever pressure group on an international issue, AAM remains "a sort of case study of what can be done when a group of people, working initially in pretty hopeless circumstances – because early on, there was a great deal of hostility – can just build things up, by lots of small gestures, and have an effect," says Gurney.
Cruz outlined several areas where the $100,000 in award money might be directed: work in the non-commercial sector, new housing prototypes and the establishment of a micro-community as a sort of "case study," among other ideas.
A sort of case manager takes charge of a project and cuts through a lot of the red tape, but LaRocco and Pinhero were unaware of this program when they started the project, and no one at City Hall told them about it.
Its new symbol is a stylized purple lower-case "a," sort of a smiling swoosh.
A sort of rolling, case-by-case process of legislative amendment.
The entire building serves as a sort of specimen case, a framework for pondering the natural world while straining to disturb it as little as possible.
It can be argued that Greece is a small country and also a rather unusual EU member, a sort of special case.
It has offered a foreboding lesson as a sort of test case of what can happen to a mostly middle-class country that collapses economically almost overnight.
Bernard Labadie and his orchestra and chorus from Quebec City, Les Violons du Roy and La Chapelle de Québec, presented a sort of test case at Carnegie Hall over the weekend.
