The phrase "a third world sort of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is characteristic of or reminiscent of conditions typically associated with developing countries.
Example: "The infrastructure in that area has a third world sort of feel, with poorly maintained roads and limited access to basic services."
Alternatives: "developing country kind of" or "underdeveloped nation type of".
In the third world, this sort of thing happened every day," Dexter Filkins wrote in "The Forever War," one of the recent works of narrative nonfiction about geopolitical and economic disasters that appeared to suggest a sturdier relation to reality than etherealized literary fiction.
Finding the right iPad cover is sort of a first world problem – there's plenty of choice and you just don't know what to spend your money on.
But it is rare for a threatened third-world country to have a first-world godfather of that sort, with the political will to lead a charge and the capability to succeed.So the pendulum is swinging back.
"In the Third World, this sort of thing happened every day: earthquakes, famines, plagues".
In the third world this sort of thing happens every day".
The 'Backs are a sort of third world expansion club lucky enough to discover two great natural resources, Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson.
Managing Downton Abbey?" The family seat is turned into a convalescent home as Thomas reinvents himself as a sort of first world war male version of Kerry Weaver in ER (complete with "sexual outsider" back story and physical disability).
"And I didn't want the world reduced to total anarchy, I wanted an infrastructure of sorts, like in a resource-rich Third World country, where financial interests are protected and everyone else is left to fend for themselves.
"Many people abroad may expect us in the third world to be holding these sorts of things as political theater," he told reporters on Tuesday.
The role of the anthropologist is well suited for helping to determine how to act upon mobile-related news and information, by acting as a sort of intermediary between third world residents and high tech companies.
