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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a sort of earlier" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe something that is a type or version of something that existed before, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The painting is a sort of earlier version of the artist's later work."
Alternatives: "a kind of previous" or "a type of prior".
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In contrast to perspectives provided from researchers, one of the lead public servants provided another point of view: " At one stage we had quite a difficult time with some of those researchers because they felt that the document as a sort of earlier iteration was not sufficiently evidence based and there lies a tension between policymakers and researchers.
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He devised an elaborate travel game, conjuring a sort of early virtual reality.
It has a sort of early modernist feel - like El Lissitzky, the Russian constructivist.
As Behrman has imagined her, Froude is a sort of early Katharine Hepburn, with instinctive wisdom in place of defensive wisecracks.
In Heyes's view, people with mental health problems provide a sort of "early warning system" for society.
A noise-pop duo called (((10))), comprised of a girl and a guy that have a sort of early Animal Collective sound.
It also filled a useful function for the Bennett business, serving as a sort of early warning station for news, and as a beacon of new technology.
McCrory plays Lady Clare Rendlesham, the magazine's then editor, a formidable woman who was a sort of early-prototype Anna Wintour.
Disappointed, he prevails on an arthouse cinema to show him Louis Feuillade's 1916 classic, "Judex", a sort of early Batman who acts as a cloaked avenger.
When he was able to return to work, his boss, District Attorney Jim Hardin, Jr., assigned him to traffic court — a sort of early semi-retirement.
The nom de plume Beaunash comes, of course, from 17th-century England, Richard Nash, Beau Nash to his friends - was a sort of early Beau Brummel.
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