The phrase "a sort of fair" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that resembles or has characteristics of a fair, but may not be a traditional fair.
Example: "The event was a sort of fair, featuring local artisans and food vendors, but it lacked the usual rides and games."
Alternatives: "a kind of fair" or "a type of fair".
Tells about a visit to a "mela," a sort of fair, which writer and other children went to along with his father, who was on a tour of duty there.
"I didn't vote to come out with no deal, I voted to come out and have a sort of fair deal," she said.
And, to be fair, this sort of thing may matter during the final days of an election.
It's up to others to say 'Does he go about his job in a sort of dignified, fair, reasonable way?' If the newspapers decide that's not the case, then I've got to live with that".
Three black men were accused of the crime, though they did not stand any sort of fair trial: all three were dead within a day.
"But the data tell us that any sort of fair redistricting is likely to improve Republican chances".
He worked on Wall Street in the early 1960s, and in 1967 founded the magazine Institutional Investor, a sort of Vanity Fair for bankers.
The following week she's in a sort of sleeveless Fair Isle – no doubt brilliantly made in China by robots – a blue gent-ish shirt and cropped trousers cut like jodhpurs.
It's that time again: the annual meeting of the American Economic Association and affiliates, a sort of medieval fair that serves as a marketplace for bodies (newly minted Ph.D.'s in search of jobs), books and ideas.
On the last day of Disrupt, May 7th, Startup Alley focuses solely on hardware startups, turning the pavilion into a sort of science fair-meets-maker-event.
Originally conceived by art-world jester Maurizio Cattelan, it is a sort of anti-art-fair fair showcasing three dozen non-profit arts organizations from Hong Kong to Brooklyn.
