The phrase "a useful degree" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the value or practicality of a specific academic degree in relation to career opportunities or personal development.
Example: "Many employers prefer candidates with a useful degree that aligns with the job requirements."
Alternatives: "a practical degree" or "a valuable degree".
Just turning off the heating element, but leaving the motor running, still reduces demand to a useful degree.
For example, ample evidence exists to indicate that such disorders as major depression, substance abuse, anxiety disturbance and others can be estimated with a useful degree of accuracy and reliability.
Under five years of Harding, the Times has won a full measure of praise: it has an eclectic mix of columnists, plenty of good exclusive stories and campaigns, plus a useful degree of political unpredictability.
These colleges do not generate much intellectual ferment or political radicalism, but they and their graduates do provide the city with other voices and a useful degree of political flexibility.
It gives Mr Bashir a useful degree of ideological flexibility and keeps Western diplomats nicely off-balance as well.Some officials readily admit to many mistakes in Darfur, and regret the carnage.
A useful degree of adhesion is obtained (about 1 to 6 kg per cm [5 to 30 pounds per inch]) but is in no way comparable to the adhesion of metals to metals.
"It is extremely doubtful," reported the attending physicians, "that any useful degree of recovery will occur".
For interventions that have never been implemented, on the other hand, quantitative prediction of population health impact may not be possible with any useful degree of precision.
Finding things on maps, sending quick texts or e-mails to friends or family members, starting or stopping a music program from playing a song a few thousand words will handle many of these tasks to a remarkably useful degree.
An earlier meta-analysis which included 28 studies (5408 subjects) concluded that the 5-HTTLPR bi-allelic short/long polymorphism by itself does not seem to predict antidepressant response to a clinically useful degree (Taylor et al., 2010).
On occasion the useful degree of analysis may, conversely, be such as to cut into a simple word of ordinary language, requiring its paraphrase into a composite term in which other terms are compounded with the help of canonical notation.
