The phrase "a sort of partial" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that is not complete or is only a part of a whole, often in a vague or informal manner.
Example: "The report provided a sort of partial overview of the project's progress, leaving out several key details."
Alternatives: "somewhat incomplete" or "a kind of limited".
It seems to me that we all live today in a sort of partial condition of "Internetness," and daily less partially.
If anything, the line plaintiffs seek to draw which seeks a sort of partial anonymity is stranger still.
So, the corporate profits tax is in effect a sort of partial nationalization of all the private companies in the country.
Not to be outdone, the $28,000 GMC Envoy, which the company calls an "XUV" ("extreme utility vehicle"), has a wide-opening tailgate that slides up over the roof to make it into a sort of partial convertible.
The best explanation, in my view, for tax exemption for charities is that it is a sort of partial government subsidy for organizations that offer services that the private market will not offer, and that government either will not or cannot offer directly.
Many of Pandora's founders and executives had been reticent to do any sort of partial liquidation.
Work carried out a few years ago on the effect of circumcision on the transmission of HIV showed a similar sort of partial protection for those who had had the snip.
This leaves perhaps the worst sort of partial answer to a question about a fire: knowing that a place was burned on purpose but not who burned it.
Otherwise, they would have endured a traditional IPO along with its customary lock-up period without a blink of an eye, or at the very least imposed some sort of partial lock-up into the direct listing where only a certain percentage of stock could be sold.
There's been a lot of debate over whether Twitter would have some sort of partial subscription business model or an ad-based one.
