The phrase "a measure of something" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the quantification or assessment of a particular quality, characteristic, or variable.
Example: "The survey provided a measure of customer satisfaction, allowing the company to identify areas for improvement."
Alternatives: "an indicator of something" or "a gauge of something".
Mr. Lehrer, in a blog post titled Online Status Anxiety on his Web site, wrote, "What I'm most troubled by is the desire of individuals (especially myself) to constantly check up on these numbers, and to accept these measurements as a measure of something meaningful".
This may be a measure of something else entirely.
It's a measure of something that the Dad joke has become a campaign meme in 2013.
Therefore you cannot have zero percent, because to have a measure of something (percent) implies we have something, not nothing.
You can have zero percent not because it would be a measure of something, but because it is a measure of nothing.
"It shows something very impressive," he said, "a decline of two-thirds in a measure of something considered very important to social well-being and sense of safety".
Among them is the use of fortnight as a measure of time, something that completely baffles our American cousins.
So I speak of a measure of justice, something that's symbolic, that helps survivors live with a measure of dignity".
She married him for a measure of security — something that he won't offer to anyone else, least of all Vanya, who is as fed up with Serebryakov's claims to love him as the other characters are with their self-delusions, which they can't seem to shake or stop talking about.
That is a small measure of something the missing-person signs also note: "The search is frantic".
Now, on clear days, the surrounding mountains might seem to swallow Wasilla up again, restoring a measure of obscurity, and something like normalcy.
