The phrase "across a widespread" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe something that is prevalent or common over a large area or among many people, but the phrasing is awkward.
Example: "The disease spread across a widespread area, affecting thousands of people."
Alternatives: "throughout a broad area" or "over a large expanse".
The constant influxes of Gulf moisture, along with storm systems that regularly develop and sweep across the region, have allowed several inches of rain to fall every week across a widespread area.
". "TransportationCamp is all about building connections across a widespread sector, from public officials, to software developers, to academics, to urban advocates and interested citizens," said Grossman.
"Global-scale insecticide usage is, to me, a more convincing cause for a widespread, across-the-board insect decline," Dr. Stager said.
Last month, an unusually warm weather system swept across Greenland, triggering a widespread melting of surface ice and snow that typically occurs only once in a lifetime.
The church is making the claims across four continents despite a widespread scientific consensus that condoms are impermeable to HIV.
With the German economy thought to have contracted around 0.5 percent in the last three months of 2011, and austerity budgets in effect across Europe, "there is a widespread fear that, similar to 2008, the German economy could now also follow the downward trend of its euro zone peers, only with a lag," Carsten Brzeski, an economist with ING in Brussels, wrote in a research note.
The posters, which appeared across Italy earlier this week, prompted a widespread criticism on social media, for their focus on Fassbender and Pitt.
The assault on police shocked law enforcement across the country, prompting a widespread trend to beef up police armament.
Secondly, to introduce innovations in Montenegrin classrooms, and thirdly the subject of today's event – to expand quality preschool education from a current rate of around 40 percent of coverage across the country with a widespread geographical and economic disparity, to a target of around 90 percent coverage by 2020," said Benjamin Perks, UNICEF Representative to Montenegro.
Negative concord is a widespread phenomenon across many varieties of English.
The move received a widespread welcome across the financial services industry.
