The phrase 'as it expanded' is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
Example: As the company expanded, the number of employees increased dramatically.
AirTran managed a 5.2percentt increase in its average fare, to $99.06 during the quarter, as it expanded its capacity by 10.8percentt.
Apple Computer posted a sharp decline in profit for the quarter yesterday, but said that sales rose as it expanded its reach into laptops and music players.
In the meantime, it was spending the cash it raised from investors as it expanded its staff and spent millions on marketing.
John Horan, who led Merck as it expanded its portfolio of pharmaceuticals and became the world's largest drug maker, died on Saturday in Princeton, N.J.
From 2010-2012, AFRitselftself burned through $836 million as it expanded its reach across the region, primarily via programs to mentor, advise, and tutor African militaries. .
At that time, Pinkney was named to head the television arm of Cinema Gypsy as it expanded its operations to television programming.
He argued that the universe had always been there, always adding to its mass as it expanded.
As it expanded and its name changed, poet Douglas Kearney, also of CalArts, wrote a libretto.
As it expanded beyond its Berkeley campus, UC's ascent paralleled California's growing importance in farming, manufacturing, defense and science.
Another app, Flipboard, recently floated the idea of hosting news publishers' stories on its own system, as it expanded from tablets and smartphones to the web.
The Oscar movies Awards heat on Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart helped the film as it expanded nationwide, following its two-week platform in London and Ireland.
