The phrase "a big spread of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a large variety or range of items, often in the context of food, options, or choices.
Example: "At the buffet, there was a big spread of dishes from different cuisines, catering to all tastes."
Alternatives: "a wide array of" or "a large selection of".
With a half-century's worth of work, mostly drawings, it's a big spread of small, detailed things, many requiring reading.
"There's a big spread of experience," Mr. Barber said when asked about the driving prowess of those who have joined.
Keith Flett, chairman of Haringey TUC, says: "I think if the [Visteon workers] actually win, we will see a big spread of this kind of thing".
I am conscious, too, of a duality in the pages I've just been reading, the local paper, the Citizen, with a big spread of birthday notices.
A few years ago, Carrier would treat workers to a meal before Christmas — a big spread of Kentucky Fried Chicken mains and sides.
He had a rattlesnake head on the band of it killed by himself, so he said and he might tell you that as a token of affection he'd put a rattler in your pocket and ask you for a match.He looked like a Texas cowboy, and that was what he was, with a big spread of acres and many head of registered longhorn cattle.
Girls are less inclined to take risks and often have more choice at A-level because they have a bigger spread of good GCSEs".
The 11th incarnation of Frieze is more manageable than most, with better lighting, wider aisles and a bigger spread of behemoth mega-galleries and startup spaces, young galleries and old lags.
He said Jewell had found a modicum of contentment in his later years: He was happily married, working as a sheriff's deputy and living on a big spread southwest of Atlanta that was full of "country-boy toys" -- he loved to hunt and fish.
The result is a big spread in forecasts of future temperature, one that scientists have not been able to narrow much in 30 years of effort.
Again we have a matriarch on our hands, and this time she is Aphrodite, living in a big spread right out of "90210," and played by Jaime Murray, who did a great job as a stalker-arsonist on "Dexter" last season, but here is made paradoxically to deliver too-cute dialogue while looking like Joan Crawford in "Mildred Pierce".
