The phrase "a widespread basis" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or condition that is prevalent or commonly accepted across a large area or among many people.
Example: "The new policy was implemented on a widespread basis, affecting communities throughout the country."
Alternatives: "a broad foundation" or "a common framework".
But Mr. Rubin was very likely the first to pop corn in machines on a widespread basis in theaters.
Those inquiries have led to concerns in Congress about the agency's ability to collect and read domestic e-mail messages of Americans on a widespread basis, officials said.
Housing activists and anti-discrimination experts concede that they have no concrete evidence that voucher holders are being turned away because of racial bias on a widespread basis.
Most of these people point to the need to conduct long-term research, since cell phones have been available on a widespread basis only since the 1980's.
Starting on a widespread basis in the 1960s and continuing through the 1980s stations programmed off-peak hours with old horror movies like "Creature From the Black Lagoon".
Cebu was probably the first Philippine island to cultivate corn on a widespread basis after that plant's introduction by the Spaniards.
One explanation could be the stigma of chronic hepatitis B--a widespread basis for employment, school, and social discrimination in China, but not in the United States.
Individual ownership of guns did not become possible, on any widespread basis, until Samuel Colt began, in the 1840's, to perfect a previously neglected firearm, the pistol.
I don't want chemical weapons to be used on a more widespread basis.
In the concluding episode of our five part Make It Wearable series (in support of Intel's Make It Wearable challenge), we examine how wearable technology could dramatically enhance our day to day lives on a perpetual, widespread basis. .
The availability of broadband data access on an increasingly widespread basis will mean that more often control systems will be interconnected through common data services.
