The phrase "a growing extent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an increasing degree or level of something over time.
Example: "The impact of climate change is being felt to a growing extent in coastal communities."
Alternatives: "an increasing degree" or "a rising level".
My sense is that, to a growing extent, practically everyone would like to see Greece leave the currency area.
To a growing extent the cultures in the East are also experiencing a loss of their traditional authorities.
To a growing extent, he said, more employees are starting to cooperate through corporate intranet travel engines, which are seen by travel managers as ways to reduce long-term travel costs.
But to a growing extent, these arguments may be heard inside the ranks of the church.At the same time, it is not easy to see how the cardinals who select John Paul's successor, even if they were overcome by a sudden burst of liberal sentiment, could make a choice which somehow addresses these conflicting realities.
However, raw materials for higher processed inputs to the production processes of biomass-based manufactured products are originating to a growing extent outside the EU.
Although the exact history of any particular complex biological feature may never be fully worked out, biologists are confident that the mechanisms by which they arise can be and to a growing extent, are—understood.
According to Cohen and Sabel 2006: 765), "[t]o a substantial and growing extent … rulemaking directly affecting the freedom of action of individuals, firms, and nation states (and the making of rules to regulate this rulemaking) is taking place … in global settings created by the world's nations but no longer under their effective control".
The spread of HIV is being driven by injecting drug use and, to a lesser but growing extent, unsafe sex among young people.
In Ukraine, the spread of HIV is being driven by injecting drug use and to a lesser but growing extent, unsafe sex among young people.
The consumption of goods and services in the EU is to a large and rapidly growing extent dependent on indirect material extractions taking place outside the EU's territory.
The main thrust of Hall's two-page letter is to remind the culture secretary of the growing extent of the BBC's coverage of women's sport.
