The phrase "a sort of total" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that is not absolute but rather a general or approximate amount or concept.
Example: "The project resulted in a sort of total transformation of the community, bringing new life and energy to the area."
Alternatives: "a kind of overall" or "a type of aggregate".
We didn't have a sort of total heart-to-heart about it".
into a sort of total dragnet operations, frisking everybody & everything & destroying the fundamental confidence of people in people, then the eagle is in serious trouble.
The New Yorker, April 24 , 1954P. 23 into a sort of total dragnet operations, frisking everybody & everything & destroying the fundamental confidence of people in people, then the eagle is in serious trouble.
They attempted to conduct a sort of total war by mobilizing the entire forces of the home front, which was already suffering from the effects of the British blockade.
By J. M. Flagler and E. B. White The New Yorker, April 24 , 1954P. 23 into a sort of total dragnet operations, frisking everybody & everything & destroying the fundamental confidence of people in people, then the eagle is in serious trouble.
Isn't there a limit to their strength, a sort of total number of strokes the hand can make?
Had it not been for Buttler's late assault, hitting two sixes and seven fours in his 86 off 72 balls, Somerset would have not had any sort of total to defend.
In addition to "Idol" and the morning radio program, he is host of his own weekday television talk show -- a sort of daytime "Total Request Live" with less hipness, more Des Moines -- which is also called "On-Air With Ryan Seacrest".
This is clear when she plays the piano, an art that both demands and provides a sort of superintegration, a total integration of sense and muscle, of body and mind, of memory and fantasy, of intellect and emotion, of one's whole self, of being alive.
His view of her rule as "a sort of Stalinist regime" represented total estrangement, and he was glad to be gone when she eventually sacked him in the post-election reshuffle of June 1987.
On the technical side, there was a simple aim: avoid the sort of total infrastructure collapse that had plagued other big online releases like SimCity and Battlefield 4. For Destiny, a game selling itself as a new type of connected experience, that would be a disaster.
