The phrase "a degree safer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing safety levels, indicating that something is somewhat safer than another option.
Example: "While both routes are safe, taking the longer path is a degree safer due to less traffic."
Alternatives: "somewhat safer" or "marginally safer".
Women are still not, to a large degree, safe in this country.
Mortgage-backed bond issuers will have to retain 5% of the risk, which hardly seems sufficient to make them that degree safer.
"There is a degree of safe-haven demand from, in and around the Middle East, and with the move up in [the gold] price in the last couple of weeks, you've had something of the order of six million ounces of short-covering going through".
Privacy by obscurity, as Woodrow Hartzog and Evan Selinger have written, "is the idea that when information is hard to obtain or understand, it is, to some degree, safe". I wanted to demonstrate to my students how the most common of technologies can be used to shatter the perceived protections of obscurity and, in turn, reveal the admittedly thin mechanisms by which privacy is actually protected.
There's still a way to go before manifesto positions become clear and, faced with the possibility of actually having to implement policies, there will be a degree of movement towards the safe middle ground.
But researchers say that kidnappings, which require teams of captors, safe houses and a degree of territorial control, flourish when the state is particularly feeble.
As Karin Landgren, UNHCR's head in Bosnia at the time, noted, the safe havens gave a "degree of sanctuary from the slaughter", but "also provided relief, recuperation and other forms of bases for the [Bosniak] military; potential bargaining chips for later negotiations on territory; and effective continuing symbols of oppression in a war which counts CNN among its fronts".
A phase IIa open pilot trial of a monoclonal anti-lipopolysaccharide IgM antibody in those with ventilator associated pneumonia suggested that such a therapy is safe and suggested a degree of efficacy in the small number of patients treated [ 103].
With nearly two-thirds of American adults considered overweight to some degree, a safe but effective weight-loss drug could have robust sales and a significant effect on public health because even modest weight loss has been shown to help stave off problems like diabetes and heart disease.
