The phrase "a sort of equal" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is similar to or comparable to equality in a certain context.
Example: "In this partnership, we aim to create a sort of equal relationship where both parties contribute equally."
Alternatives: "a kind of equal" or "a type of equal".
This is no normal quadrennial clash of titans that we're living through, but, even so, wouldn't a sort of equal-time rule apply to a novel about 2016?
"In the choice of myths, there is a sort of 'equal opportunity' (highly appropriate in these politically correct days) for homosexual love and heterosexual love," Antonio Paolucci, the superintendent of Florentine museums, writes in an introduction to the Accademia's catalog, "idealized, idealized to the extreme, it must be said, both the one and the other".
If it wasn't for the photograph of the clench-jawed cop straining at the leash of his German shepherd as it lunges into the belly of a black teenager, there would probably be no Civil Rights Act, no Voting Rights Act, nor any sort of equal rights act at all.
"There is a sort of relatively equal distribution on how strongly people feel on either side".
For many such couples, the answer has been a sort of separate but equal golfing arrangement.
Well, last night as the trees came crashing down all around me and I felt like death, it seemed a sort of natural phenomenon equal to the brainstorms and I suddenly made up my mind.
HOTELS Designed by Norman Foster, the ME London (336-337 The Strand; 877-954-8363; doubles from $660) landed earlier this fall as a sort of souped-up W, equal parts high design and swinging social scene, with 157 white-leather-paneled rooms, a branch of New York's thumping late-night steakhouse STK and a rooftop bar with Thames views.
The journalists are also calling for a new "complete review" of the magazine's management structure, which they want to see evolve into a "sort of a cooperative," with equal shares for all employees, according to French daily Libération.
Both offer the sort of equal treatment that I, a black woman who has been given extra scrutiny in stores her whole life, crave.
