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"an extensive survey" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe something that has involved an extensive amount of research or investigation. For example, "The team conducted an extensive survey to determine the public opinion on the new policy."
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In May and early June an extensive survey was conducted of some 20 possible candidates.
They mailed every bishop an extensive survey asking for information about abusive priests in their diocese.
The report was based on an extensive survey, the results of which were previously deemed a state secret.
A fifth of China's farmland is polluted, according to an offical report based on the results of an extensive survey.
It hired McKinsey & Company and RAND to review marketing practices and conduct an extensive survey of potential recruits.
In an extensive survey, economists Felipe Campante and David Yanagizawa-Drott show that Ramadan fasting has a significant negative effect on output growth in Muslim countries.
Yet the last time an extensive survey was carried out among Syrian refugees in Lebanon, only 37% of non-pregnant married women were using contraception (pdf).
(Disclosure: I contributed an essay to Fairey's 2006 book, "Obey: Supply & Demand," an extensive survey of that project and of his career so far).
To determine a basis for comparison, the city conducted an extensive survey of Midtown traffic and pedestrian patterns in March and April.
Last week, the US research organisation Pew Internet published an extensive survey that appeared to sound a death knell for blogging.
…we begin to wonder who we all are More recently, in 2002, John Seabrook wrote an extensive survey of traffic issues in New York.
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