He seemed to be waiting for some kind of answer.

Which was the kind of answer she might have expected from him.

At last he seemed to come up with something that might do service as some kind of answer.

Paul was not sure what kind of answer she wanted.

I really would like some kind of answer to my question (2).

"And what kind of answer did you have for them?"

"But to give some kind of answer, I guess it started in early 2002."

Which, Jim thought, was no kind of answer at all.

But that is not the kind of answer I want to give.

So that was the kind of answer I got to a very serious question.