The phrase "type of mistake" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a specific category or classification of mistakes. Example: In academic writing, common types of mistakes include grammar errors, citation errors, and spelling errors.
It was a Super Bowl rookie type of mistake.
On another day, exactly the same type of mistake can cost a team three points.
Call me cynical, but I would wager that that type of mistake was rare indeed.
These are a type of mistake where one base – or 'letter' – in a gene is swapped for another.
On its face, the statute does not include any words of limitation; rather, it provides a remedy for any type of mistake made in tabulating ballots.
The most important error was a failure by engineers to pay sufficient attention to what they were doing — a type of mistake that will still be with us even if the world does go fully metric.
But Besler is a dutiful, solid player less prone to the type of mistakes or flashes of indiscipline you can associate with his ball-playing, lunge-tackling counterparts.
"When you're talking about the type of mistakes that are made on an everyday basis in every walk of life, people are loath to send people to jail just because there was an unintended horrific consequence," said Avraham C. Moskowitz, a criminal defense lawyer and former federal prosecutor.
And Conference players don't make those type of mistakes.
"When this happens, we work quickly to address it by apologizing to the people affected and making any necessary changes to our processes to ensure the same type of mistakes do not continue to be made.
To obtain insights into the specific type of mistakes made in the classification, an average of the confusion matrices of the 1000 simulated data sets was computed.
