The phrase "a widespread expansion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant increase or growth that is occurring over a large area or among a large number of people or entities.
Example: "The company announced a widespread expansion of its services to meet the growing demand in various markets."
Alternatives: "a broad expansion" or "a significant expansion".
These two species represent a recent and rapid dramatic shift in genomic characteristics, including a mating system transition, a reduction in genetic diversity and effective population size following a population bottleneck, and recent widespread expansion in geographic range.
In 2009 the International Union of Geological Sciences IUGSS) officially ratified the decision to set the beginning of the Quaternary at 2,588,000 years ago, a time when rock strata show extensive evidence of widespread expansion of ice sheets over the northern continents and the beginning of an era of dramatic climatic and oceanographic change.
The widespread expansion of writing programmes there has resulted in a generation of younger academics, trained in institutions where creative writing was a normal part of the curriculum, for whom the old antagonisms no longer pertain.
Here we examine whether population growth in an insectivorous bat (Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana) can be attributed to the widespread expansion of agriculture in North America following European settlement.
It is now almost impossible for the big grocers to get planning permission for new superstores, so Safeway was regarded as the last chance for widespread expansion.
Paradoxically, the end of "established Christianity" in the old sense resulted in the most rapid and most widespread expansion in the history of Christianity.
"It's time for the regulators to take a hard look at the impacts of flaring and make sure that available solutions to the flaring problem are required before there is any further widespread expansion of the practice," said Amy Mall, senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Since the 1990s, with the goal of more fully integrating China into the global political economy, the nationwide economic reform has shifted its concentration to the promotion of information technology, particularly, the widespread expansion of the Internet.
They also surmised that the mass extermination efforts designed to eliminate prairie dogs over the last century in the United States likely contributed to the widespread expansion of mesquite shrubland.
In macrometastases, there is widespread expansion and infiltration of myofibroblasts, corresponding to the observations in Figure 1 of an excess of stromal as compared with glandular tissue within intra-lymph node tumour masses.
