The phrase "a sort of second" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is similar to or reminiscent of a second version or iteration of something.
Example: "The new model is a sort of second attempt at creating a more efficient design."
Alternatives: "a kind of second" or "a type of second".
She was a lady from California, a sort of second mum who was murdered when I was 15.
But it is a sort of second home to us all -- and finding Mr. Margolis's piece was a surprise and a delight.
PLEASE don't laugh," says Lourdes Lopez, a former principal dancer of New York City Ballet, "but I had a sort of second coming".
She promised to return.For some, the birth of a white bison (the proper name for the American buffalo) last month in Goshen, Connecticut, is almost a sort of second coming.
And combined with Indonesia's immense population, it augurs the emergence of a sort of "second India" in the Eurasian rimland, strategically located on the Strait of Malacca, the shipping superhighway between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
All of that contributes to the sense that the city is to become a sort of second London for northern England.Yet Manchester's greatest strength in recent years has been in its civic leadership.
So perhaps Crouch's concept of "the guide" offers us a sort-of third way, one in which theatre makers don't have to make a brutal and sometimes impossible choice between pandering and patronising.
It's been called bad because it appears to be a truncated, unauthorized version of the play-a sort of seventeenth-century bootleg.
That night I was on a sort of second-line "anything else" kind of alert.
Part of the problem has been a culture that sees managing and implementing big projects as a sort of second-class career.
Fashion was never part of the program, and it was almost as if photography, which had its own battles as a sort of second-class citizen of the arts, could not afford to be too mixed up with such riffraff.
