The phrase "a substantial stretch of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant length or duration of something, often in relation to time, distance, or effort.
Example: "The project required a substantial stretch of time to complete, far longer than we initially anticipated."
Alternatives: "a considerable length of" or "a significant amount of".
This would be a substantial stretch of its jurisdiction, one the agency might not want to make.
Then, for a substantial stretch of his solo, he dropped the left hand and concentrated on improvising a compelling line.
Its breeding range on this continent is confined to northwestern portions, but it has a nearly circumpolar distribution, occurring across a substantial stretch of Eurasia, where it is also called the Common Gull.
Whether he expected such a substantial stretch of privacy when he withdrew from New York is unknown, as is almost everything about his private life in a place that is not nearly so remote from the world as most of his readers supposed.
Recovery times for high ankle sprains vary widely, but it seems likely Amukamara will miss a substantial stretch.
Another part of the Bush plan would turn over the tracks from Washington to Boston, the so-called Northeast Corridor and the only substantial stretch of track that Amtrak owns, to a new federal-state organization that would pay to upgrade it.
Over the years, the overly optimistic have included women who have set off in high heels, even though the trail entails scrambling over slippery creek logs, tackling substantial stretches of rocky boulders, climbing 97 switchbacks and crossing a snowfield near the summit.
Beginning in the early 1980s Mr. Gazzara spent substantial stretches of time acting in movies in Italy, where he had a villa in Umbria.
There are also footpaths along substantial stretches of the coasts of Sussex, Kent, Essex, Lincolnshire and Northumbria.
Two national parks, Snowdonia and Pembrokeshire Coast, incorporate substantial stretches of beach and cliff along the shoreline.
The custom also ignores the possibility that many people found substantial stretches of the last year to be singularly rotten, and have no desire to relive them.
