"semblance of continuity" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when expressing the idea of a facade or the illusion of something being able to continue as normal. For example, "The company attempted to maintain a semblance of continuity during the coronavirus pandemic, but ultimately had to close its doors."
Images of their daily lives are poignant; a relentless dislocation making any semblance of continuity an illusion to which they will always aspire.
Assembly of the film is mostly a random selection of the cuts to meet the running time and release schedule, and still retain a semblance of continuity.
The editing aims for a semblance of continuity, and the soundtracks of the clips overlap: you'll hear a London clock tower ringing in the background of a film about Los Angeles.
In a bid to provide some semblance of continuity, the WHO has issued guidance telling medical staff to provide all fever patients with ACTs whether or not they have been diagnosed with malaria.
After going through the process of "training young attorneys to be prosecutors and trial lawyers at public expense, it is crucial to be able to keep them on staff and maintain some semblance of continuity," Mr. Richards wrote last week to Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno, urging him to pass the bill.
It was a reading that gained some credibility as it went on, after a most unpromising first movement which Welser-Möst broke into self-contained paragraphs so that any semblance of symphonic continuity was destroyed.
Time jumps its sequential tracks and is dismantled, fracturing in the stuck-needle repetition of the retake, shuffled into new chronologies by the demands of shooting schedules, with the semblance of a continuity or plot emerging only in the edit, this being as true of daily news as of a Jason Statham vehicle.
As members of the examination board, we desired an assessment format that could balance the strengths of an OSCE with a semblance of patient continuity and complexity.
A semblance of normal life continues in west Aleppo.
They lacked aggression and continuity and any semblance of try threat.
This event was the reality of continuity.
