The phrase "a wider range of practical" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the variety or diversity of practical applications, skills, or experiences in a particular context.
Example: "The new curriculum offers a wider range of practical skills that students can apply in real-world situations."
Alternatives: "a broader spectrum of practical" or "an expanded variety of practical".
Farouk, I.M. Smith, Proceedings of the European Geophysical Society on Millennium Conference on Earth, Planetary and Solar Systems Sciences, Nice, France, April 2000) use numerical (finite element) techniques to study a wider range of practical problems involving anisotropy, arbitrary geometries and so on.
Lasers have found a wide range of practical applications, from long-distance telephone calls to eye surgery, from missile guidance systems to the checkout counter at the supermarket.
By remaining focused on macroeconomic aggregates (such as total consumption and total investment) and by deliberately simplifying the relationships between these economic variables, Keynes achieved a powerful model that could be applied to a wide range of practical problems.
The home secretary, Theresa May, has said that while Britain will never sign up to a European police force or European public prosecutor, it does participate in a wide range of practical agreements that have "made a positive difference in fighting crime and preventing terrorism".
A wide range of practical design situations is considered.
Thus, mammalian P450s appear to have great potential for a wide range of practical applications.
Adaptive infinite impulse response (IIR) filters have shown their worth in a wide range of practical applications.
Different types of the stiffened triangular plates are considered in order to cover a wide range of practical applications.
Lower-order finite elements have been conventionally used to solve a wide range of practical problems involving laminated composite plates.
The ease of sample preparation in combination with high activity suggested that pAuNPs can potentially cause a wide range of practical applications of Au catalysis.
Eigenvalues of tensors have become an important topic of study in numerical multilinear algebra, and they have a wide range of practical applications; see [4, 5, 8 21].
