The phrase "a very specific sort" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a particular category or type of something in detail.
Example: "The research focused on a very specific sort of plant that thrives in arid environments."
Alternatives: "a particular kind" or "a distinct type".
Historically, the position has mostly been reserved for a very specific sort of person: white, Christian, preferably blue-collar.
If there is a "military" quality to Police Corps training, it is a very specific sort of militarism: the United States Special Forces train much the same way as the Police Corps does, with an emphasis on preparing recruits to lead, make decisions, and deal with the unexpected (as opposed to standard military boot camps, which teach recruits to follow orders).
Actually, as Curtis argues, nostalgia formed the basis of Trivial Pursuit's appeal from the moment it was released in 1982: The game concerns itself with useless information, yes, but useless information of a very specific sort: detritus from the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, which flattered the baby boomer by making his golden years seem vital, even historic.
In Patchogue and, yes, throughout the Town of Brookhaven, whose Town Council authorized a $500 donation to Mr. Butler's Christmas 'n' Patchogue committee, he has made a name (and a few enemies) as a senior citizen/activist bent on recreating a very specific sort of Christmas.
What De Forest and some of his followers were urging Americans to write, Buell explains, was a very specific sort of book: the kind of panoramic, class-crossing, manner-marking, epoch-defining novel that Balzac and Thackeray (and, in a more radical way, Dickens and, later, Zola) had produced in England and France.
America has been watching a very specific sort of guy at 11 35 p.m. for half a century, one who chuckles as Mary Tyler Moore or Sarah Jessica Parker tells an amusing story and lets us drift off by the time some stand-up comic or blow-up starlet tells a salacious joke.
"We invented the SnowShoe stamp to solve that very specific, sort of niche, problem, and then realized we had invented something pretty cool that could solve a bunch of other problems for other people," explains Moberg.
The image of calligraphy covering the body in a very specific, ritualistic sort of way was something that I'd never seen before and something that I'd always wanted to reference.
Suffice to say that Fabio Capello, the renowned disciplinarian who coaches England's national side, has a very specific situation to sort out with his chosen captain.
The Chinese authorities came to him with a very specific question: "What sort of discount should you put on TVs in Tier 3 cities?
Alana Massey: That essay was sort of the catalyst for me taking seriously the prospect of writing a book because it was successful in a very specific internet way that sort of fast-tracked me to more attention in the media and literary space.
