The phrase "are rather spread" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is distributed or dispersed over a certain area or among a group.
Example: "The resources are rather spread across the different departments, making it challenging to allocate them effectively."
Alternatives: "are quite distributed" or "are fairly scattered".
Performances are rather spread out over this period, and there is not too much focus.
In quantum theory, objects like electrons or cats have no definite position or properties before they are observed or measured, but are rather spread out over all space in a cloud of possibility known as a wave function.
Although genes responsible for chlorophyll biosynthesis are rather spread out in the Cfl.
In contrast to the purple photosynthetic bacteria, the photosynthetic genes are rather spread out in the Cfl.
aurantiacus are rather spread out in the chromosome, similar to the distribution of photosynthetic genes in Cba.
The ADHD diagnoses also were rather spread among our two risk subgroups.
However, infection ESTs did not cluster, but were rather spread evenly throughout the genome (Fig. 1).
The activity was rather spread throughout the sediment, within a depth range that was affected by the clams, which had an average body length of 15 17 cm and were buried up to four-fifths in the sediment.
Corals do not build their skeleton only on their outmost surface, but aragonite formation is rather spread over the full thickness of the still living organic layer (Barnes and Lough, 1993).
Higher GND densities accumulate near grain boundaries and triple junctions as anticipated by Ashby's theory, while lower densities are rather more spread through the material.
These cases were rather evenly spread demographically including age, sex, social-economic background and race of people living in the Themi Hill surroundings, which has a notably high, seasonal population of various snail species, particularly of the family Lymnaeidea.
