The phrase "a significant spread of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a large or notable distribution or variation of something, often in contexts like research, statistics, or discussions about trends.
Example: "The study revealed a significant spread of opinions among the participants regarding the new policy."
Alternatives: "a considerable range of" or "a notable distribution of".
It was the first time Japan had confronted the threat of a significant spread of radiation since the greatest nightmare in its history, a catastrophe exponentially worse: the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States, which resulted in more than 200,000 deaths from the explosions, fallout and radiation sickness.
"Over the last few years there has been a significant spread of the disease throughout the region, primarily coming from Nigeria.
For the 'Inner Regional' area of the ASGC Remoteness classification, there is also a significant spread of access scores from the highest access right through to the lowest access.
Our results reveal a higher degree of similarity at reef settlement, followed by a significant spreading of species within morphospace over ontogeny.
Isolated CSDs were associated with a significant spreading depression of high-frequency-ECoG activity in the sub-δ, δ-, θ-, α-, β- and γL frequency bands, but not in frequencies below 0.5 Hz (Repeated measures ANOVA on ranks with Dunn's post hoc test, n = 12, P < 0.05) (Fig. 5A).
Also significant spread of the plastic zone occurs in the forward sector ahead of the tip under impact loading which is akin to isotropic solids.
SFRS Chief Officer Alasdair Hay said there had been "significant spread" of flames within the building but would not comment on speculation it did not have a sprinkler system installed.
(It's evident why Wolfram, who adds depth to the term "control freak," published this work himself. Some illustrations contain hundreds of checkered cells per inch, requiring "careful sheet-fed printing on paper smooth enough to avoid significant spreading of ink").
Site variabilities and uncertainties in data and information lead to significant spread in results of groundwater flow and contaminant transport models.
The appearance of significant spreads between rates of different tenors has given rise to a new kind of interest rate swap, called basis swap, where two streams of floating payments linked to underlying rates of different tenors are exchanged.
There was a significant interaction between spread of disease and Aboriginal status (P for interaction = 0.044).
