"a degree of continuity" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe when two or more things are connected or linked to each other in some way. For example, "The course offered a degree of continuity with the previous semester's coursework."
"In creating a neighborhood, there needs to be a degree of continuity.
The way our contract currently runs, there is also scope for a degree of continuity of care.
The board hoped to keep a degree of continuity at the club and appointed Slade's No2, Graham Rodger, as manager.
Lygo, as an internal candidate, stands for a degree of continuity, and would plot a future for Channel 4 as a standalone commercial public service channel.
He worked closely with Mr. Bernanke both at the New York Fed and as Treasury secretary, so he would provide a degree of continuity.
Dr. Stringer said the findings "suggest at least a degree of continuity" in the development of modern human behavior over the last 40,000 years or so.
The geographic isolation of Bāvand territories permitted a degree of historical continuity.
Concerning the legacy of the Iron Age nomads, we find that modern human populations with a close genetic relationship to the Scythian groups are predominantly located in close geographic proximity to the sampled burial sites, suggesting a degree of population continuity through historical times.
In this type of transition, there is a degree of political continuity between authoritarianism and democracy.
Assemblages such as the ASKM and KUSM provide a window onto late Miocene biogeographic configurations in Africa, which already had an African-endemic (Ethiopian) character to them but retain a degree of taxonomic continuity with Eurasia, shortly before early Pliocene advent of increased continental endemism (discussed below).
The Eisenhower Presidency represented not only stability but, as the historian Richard Neustadt has pointed out, an unusual decade notable for an "environment of policy and politics marked by a high degree of continuity," from a Democratic Administration (Harry Truman's) to Eisenhower's Republican one.
