The phrase "a sort of recommendation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to express that something is not a formal recommendation but has a similar nature or quality.
Example: "The article provides a sort of recommendation for the best practices in sustainable living."
Alternatives: "a kind of suggestion" or "a type of endorsement".
It gets in your head of not wanting to fall short of that the next go around and all those things, but I think we've done a good job of letting it go and not worrying about getting any sort of recommendation but just making a good record.
My solitary presence, without any sort of recommendation from another author, made him receive me with significant reserve.
On the face of it, Sykes would seem a good fit for Shazam, which is trying hard to expand its appeal beyond music recognition and recommendation to become a sort-of audio barcode service for all sorts of content discovery but particularly via the television.
It was a sort of a directory with recommendations about the best app for something in particular.
With the rise of e-commerce, this sort of recommendation software is a hot field, both inside companies and in academia.
Second, after we've gathered some numbers relating to a phenomenon, we must reasonably aggregate them into some sort of recommendation or ranking.
While the Advisory Board has no legal authority to mandate action on the agency's part, the agency will consider this recommendation, a sort of "Final Solution" cooked up by public-lands ranchers and their allies.
At the end of 2011, Noma and the excellent travel search/information site Momondo.com (also based in Copenhagen and well worth exploring) assembled a nicely designed little guide book to the city based on just that sort of recommendation: In "Copenhagen from Noma & Momondo," 40-odd members of the Noma team -- chefs, waiters, a dishwasher, sommeliers, Mr. Redzepi himself -- name their favorites.
Reportedly, the wine produced there doubles your urine output, which isn't the sort of recommendation that attracts Paris's many oenophiles.
"If we see that over the past 90 days more money has come into someone's account than gone out, we could tell the customer 'why don't you think of opening one of these savings accounts?' That's the sort of recommendation we plan to make.
