"a mere continuation" is a valid phrase that can be used in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to point out that something is simply a continuation of something else in an uneventful or unexciting way. For example, "The sequel was a mere continuation of the same storyline from the first movie."
Carl von Clausewitz taught us nearly 200 years ago that "War is a mere continuation of politics by other means". We have to have a political endgame, or the sacrifices our troops continue to make will be in vain.
The young 20th century, its advent celebrated in such enterprises as The New Century Library pocket editions of classics recently out of copyright appears in such images more and more like a mere continuation of the century before.
The idea that education is for the mind and soul, for the whole person – the citizen, the parent, the voter, the reader, the lover, the traveller, the human being in the round – is lost to view in trying to make university education a mere continuation of school for the same sausage-machine purpose of churning out employees.
A research project that is original, tackles major, fundamental questions in biology, and isn't "a mere continuation of what has been done during the Ph.D". is also necessary.
For the critics, what Mr Hollande and Ms Vallaud-Belkacem are doing - far from being revolutionary - is a mere continuation of school changes (from left and right) that go back decades.
Based on this, the court held that MIKA was indeed a "mere continuation of MKI under a different name", and thus MIKA should be liable for MKI's debt to Regions Bank.
But his method was more than the mere continuation of an early habit.
Neil Gaiman says his return to Vertigo Comics' realm of the Endless is no mere continuation of the series that spawned a creative revolution altering the medium.
The mere continuation of sanctions would not have reduced Iran's technical ability or political motivations to acquire nuclear weapons.
This is why the hardline establishment insists on normality and business as usual, and why the mere continuation of protests denies them that particular fiction.
Twelve action points, several of which (the Night Tube and limits on polluting vehicles, for example, as well as protecting neighbourhood policing teams) are mere continuations of Boris Johnson's policies and plans.
