The phrase "a sort of problem" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a situation or issue that is not clearly defined or is somewhat ambiguous.
Example: "The project encountered a sort of problem that required further investigation before proceeding."
Alternatives: "a kind of issue" or "a type of dilemma".
High-level officials who were involved from its inception under county control in the mid-1970's, and since then in its attempts to go private, describe a sort of "problem child" that inherited bad qualities from both parents: patronage and favoritism issues from its years under government management, and fiscal overreaching since it became a public benefit corporation.
That poses a sort of problem for our system, because it's very hard for market timers to beat a market that's headed up.
It is a sort of inverse problem to the classical problem of the trajectories of points on circles rolling inside other circles; the problem whose solution is hypocycloids and hypotrochoids.
"A sort of mathematical problem about which pages pointed to which other pages.
Both authors believe this has a lot to do with a deep-rooted tendency for development experts to think of poverty or underdevelopment as a sort of technical problem in search of a suitable (and often simple) technical fix.
"Information retrieval or recommendation it's a sort of filtering problem, right?
You see, the terms and definitions you use for biobanks are a sort of a problem because there are so many different borders with BBMRI and everyone [has] their own terminology that differs from each other.
Fortunately despite comissioning them, Amanda has since gone slightly AWOL/been sectioned, so the grills' creator has been left with a sort of difficult problem to solve.
While we model our TFBS prediction as a sort of classification problem, we still incorporate the notions of chromatin accessibility and stability.
Also, Europe is crowded, so its NIMBYs are noisy.China has a different sort of problem: a shortage of water, of which millions of gallons can be required to frack a single well.
