The phrase "an increasing span of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a range or extent that is growing or expanding over time.
Example: "The research shows an increasing span of interest in renewable energy sources among young people."
Alternatives: "a growing range of" or "an expanding scope of".
After a criterion was met, the rats were tested on the odor span task, which requires rats to remember an increasing span of different odors to receive food reward.
The issue becomes even more complex in light of research that indicates kids can be gifted and learning disabled at the same time, says Webb. "Once you get up into the gifted range, particularly as you get into the upper reaches of the gifted range, you find an increasing span of abilities," he says.
In theory, the E and M oscillators spread apart during long nights, allowing an increased span of nocturnal locomotor activity in winter, whereas in summer, the long hours of daylight and short nights squeeze the interval between E and M, resulting in a shorter duration of nocturnal locomotor activity.
The increasing span of control of Air Traffic Control enterprise automation (e.g. Flight Schedule Monitor, Departure Flow Management), along with lean-processes and pay-for-performance business models, has placed increased emphasis on operator training time and error rates.
Our new robot bosses will sneak up on us in the form of increasing span of control.
The fourth rule was based on morphological dilation operator implemented recursively on (primary) masked data with the increasing span of the structuring element: (11).
It was, in part, an attempt to justify increasing spans of control.
These communication breakdowns can be alleviated by increasing spans of control and condensing hierarchical layers.
our productivity efforts, based in part on what we heard from you, will involve initiatives such as streamlining our organizational structure through reducing layers and increasing spans of control, and eliminating redundancies.
By eliminating low-value work, or delegating it to less-expensive resources, some sales forces have opportunity to increase span of control while focusing managers' attention on higher-value activities.
But there are downsides to increased spans of control (see the exhibit "Typical Mistakes").
