The phrase "a degree of persistence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the level or extent of persistence someone shows in a particular situation or task.
Example: "To succeed in this competitive field, you need a degree of persistence and determination."
Alternatives: "a level of persistence" or "an amount of persistence".
When UAS first emerged, the accepted wisdom was that they would be most useful doing tasks deemed "dull, dirty, dangerous, difficult or different".Included in the "dull" and the "difficult" categories were surveillance missions requiring time and a degree of persistence that crews of manned aircraft could not provide.
Even if it may often be renewed, it has also a degree of persistence, sometimes remarkably long, even if only for a shred of it.
The long-term biological hazards associated with the use of organochloride, organophosphate and carbamate pesticides propelled the introduction of a new generation of pesticides with a lesser degree of persistence.
Second, a reverting outer regime where the dynamics of reversion differ between positive and negative deviations, such that price rises greater than the level supported by dividends exhibit a greater degree of persistence than price falls relative to dividends.
School enrollments in 1900 can explain more than 72 percent of the variation in years of schooling across countries today, as measured by data collected by Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee; a similar degree of persistence occurs across United States cities. Educated parents and teachers produce educated children; societies that invested in schooling a century ago still generally do so today.
Second, when we look at the choice of hiring lobbyists, we see a reasonable degree of persistence.
5Using the mean method when defining the educational norm leads to a lower degree of persistence for all groups.
Our overview of the existing research on persistence and state dependence in overeducation indicates that there is evidence of a high degree of persistence.
However, if there is a higher degree of persistence and state dependence in overeducation among immigrants this would be a sign of a more severe problem.
The main difference lies in the larger adjustment, today, through changes in participation rates, although with a lower degree of persistence.
