The phrase "a sort of ranking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a classification or hierarchy that is not strictly defined or formalized.
Example: "In this study, we created a sort of ranking to evaluate the effectiveness of different teaching methods."
Alternatives: "a type of hierarchy" or "a kind of classification".
In this way, we built a sort of ranking of KEGG pathways, where negative values of PCo1 coordinates were related with ageing.
Unfortunately, reputation acts as a sort of ranking flywheel reinforcing conventional wisdom and potentially distorting the truth.
In the 1980s, now-retired psychology professor Bob Altemeyer came up with his own extension of a 1940s right-wing authoritarian scale, which is exactly what it sounds like: a sort of ranking system to make sense of why people gravitate towards the right.
In the 1980s, now-retired psychology professor Bob Altemeyer came up with his own extension of a 1940s right-wing authoritarian scale, which is exactly what it sounds like: a sort of ranking system to make sense of why people gravitate to the right.
Despite our increasingly wearisome penchant for lists, television was never linear enough for meaningful comparisons; it is now so wildly diverse in form and function that any sort of ranking or award is all but meaningless.
The table will loosely correlate with team strength, but there are several reasons (outside of the scope of this article) to hesitate before using these numbers as a sort of power ranking: [Note: All statistics in this article are from before the Monday Night Football game between the Bears and Eagles.] As you'd expect, the Packers have been in front most of the time this season.
"Until I started analysis, I was a sort of a rank-and-filer," he recalled.
It does this by looking at your "social metrics", such as who follows you on Twitter, creating a sort of "page rank" for people.
In response, there has been a sort of closing of ranks.
Uses distance from a sort of "review centroid" to rank reviews, which is reminiscent of the Gilbert/Kahalios paper.
With a service like Speedi.ly, those services can create a sort of real time page rank on the fly.
