The phrase "a sort of mixture" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe a combination of two or more things that have been mixed together. For example, "The bread was a sort of mixture between a crusty baguette and a fluffy pita."
These revealed a writer of ecstatic innocence, a sort of mixture of William Blake, John Clare and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
In books three and four of his bulky scientific-philosophical encyclopedia, The Opinions of the Philosophers (De'ot ha-filosofim), written around 1270 and still unpublished, Falaquera quotes a number of passages of the Brethren concerning mineralogy and botany, where a sort of mixture of Aristotelian doctrines and alchemy can be found.
"This is an old legend that has circulated for years in the peloton, a sort of magical mixture to fantasize over while sipping a beer," he said in a statement on his website.
When the CO2 mixes with the water in the sea sediments, recent studies suggest it should form hydrates, a sort of water/CO2 ice mixture that will form a cap over the rest of the injected carbon dioxide.
They were only youngsters, but they were looking at self help leaflets, motivation leaflets.… and she was then developing herself as an exercise counsellor and you could almost see this sort of, this sort of mixture of a motivator, an exercise counsellor, a little bit of understanding about cognitive behavioural things and making some changes and that sort of stuff.
It's a sort of hybrid, really, a mixture of the folk traditional 900 Miles and Hedy West's 500 Miles, with a little of Mr Zimmerman thrown in.
That something turns out to be a sort of culinary joke: a mixture of almost indistinguishable cooling green scallions, perky pickled peppers and searingly hot green chiles.
Instead, they're doing it more than 8 years later after a man apparently lit some sort of mixture of powder and liquid in his lap.
You can hear this sort of mixture of things in a comment by a British officer in the colonies during the French and Indian War.
But Diwan offers better chicken choices, like the unusual potli chicken, a breast stuffed with minced chicken and served with fragrant lemon rice, and excellent basil chicken, in which the aroma of a basil-and-yogurt mixture, a sort of Indian pesto, wafts up from the chicken.
We're going to have to take in some capital, whether it's institutional or from friends and family or some sort of mixture, and we're going to start gearing up towards a franchise model.
