The phrase "a broader spread than" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the extent or range of something, typically in contexts like statistics, finance, or general comparisons.
Example: "The new marketing strategy resulted in a broader spread than the previous campaign, reaching a wider audience."
Alternatives: "a wider range than" or "a greater distribution than".
Both ribosome footprint and mRNA reads were highly strand-specific (see Figure 1B), but the distributions of edgeR [ 40] normalized read counts per gene were noticeably different between ribosome footprints and mRNA (Additional file 2: Figure S2B), with the ribosome footprint read counts showing a broader spread than the mRNA reads.
Thus the NAD(P H dominated curves in Figs. 3 (a, c and e) and the horizontal position of points in Fig. 4 d) may exhibit a broader spread than would be observed in vivo due to the range of observation time points employed in our ex vivo study.
Equally striking, there is a broader spread of incomes among people of the same education, occupation, age or sex.
"It's become clear that there is a broader spread to the problem outside of gang activity," Gallagher explains.
Unit trusts are invested in a broad spread of shares so the risk is reduced.
There is also a broad spread in how early the decline began in different cities.
Analysts ascribed SAP's performance to a broader geographic spread than many of its rivals and its strong position in Europe, despite problems last year with its mySAP.com e-business software.
America said the hotel, owned by an American company, had broken its embargo against trading with Cuba.Stephen Harper, Canada's new Conservative prime minister, named a cabinet reflecting a broad geographical spread rather than his own base in the west.
Figure 6 shows that while around 18% of animals move less than a kilometre during their life, there is then a very broad spread of distances travelled, with dairy cattle moving less far than beef cattle.
Broader spread of some diseases.
