The phrase "a broad tendency" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a general pattern or inclination observed in a particular context or subject matter.
Example: "There is a broad tendency among consumers to prefer sustainable products over conventional ones."
Alternatives: "a general trend" or "a wide inclination".
This essence has a broad tendency to inflect the moment we are living through.
There is a broad tendency in our culture, an end-of-an-era feeling, that AIDS is reinforcing; an exhaustion, for many, of purely secular ideals.
A broad tendency toward instability and partisan conflict, he writes, is woven into the fabric of a political system in which a democratically elected executive can come from one party and a democratically elected legislature from another.
After three decades of forest regeneration in our study area, there are still measurable differences in habitat use, with a broad tendency for parrots to favor old growth over secondary forest.
And despite a broad tendency to favor one's own racial or ethnic group in all sorts of contexts, many racially liberal white Americans express greater support for black political candidates than for otherwise identical white candidates (a tendency which was evident in patterns of support for Obama in 2008).
Finally, a Mantel test comparison of the PST and FST matrices indicated that there was a broad tendency for high levels of pairwise morphological divergence to be associated with high values of pairwise microsatellite DNA divergence across a broad range of h values used in calculating PST (i.e., h = 0.25 0.75, Z = 45.6 76.5, r = 0.25 0.28, P = 0.01 0.008, e.g., Fig. 6).
This is part of a broader tendency to think narrowly when evaluating information and making decisions.
David Harwell, who teaches literature at Alabama, believes that the problems of the football program are just part of a broader tendency by the university to lean on its past glories instead of doing the hard work to improve itself.
This seems to be part of a broader tendency to fetishise and fashionise books and bookishness – it's what Christine Smallwood identified last year as "the merchandising of reading" and what you might also call the lifestyle-ification of literature.
When exchange rates were kept at artificially high levels, East Asia's economies were able to borrow in dollars at ludicrously cheap rates, reinforcing a broader tendency to invest without regard to the cost.
This forms part of a broader tendency for property markets to be especially bubbly in big cities, particularly capitals such as London.With global monetary conditions so loose, governments are using regulatory tools to cool overheated housing markets.
