"broad indications" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe general or overall indications, rather than specific or precise ones. Example: The results of the study provided broad indications of a potential link between diet and heart disease, but further research is needed to confirm these findings.
Metrics are sledgehammers rather than lasers and will, at best, offer broad indications of quality.
Polls last winter showed that public support for the president's decision to go to war in Iraq was sharply divided along partisan lines, with broad indications of reluctance.
The rules, though, do not require them to report specific amounts received for speaking or consulting, other than broad indications like "more than $30,000".
The rules, though, do not require them to report specific amounts received for speaking or consulting, other than broad indications like "more than $30,000". Some faculty who conduct research have limits of $30,000 in stock and $20,000 a year in fees.
But in his presentation to team owners in August 2006, he gave broad indications of how he would lead the league, clues to his vision for active leadership to sculpture not just how the N.F.L. runs, but also how it appears to outsiders.
Discussion: The high rate of compliant prescriptions can be explained by the broad indications of carbapenems in the ICU, especially in patients with septic shock.
These indicate that four raters would be sufficient to provide a broad indication of domains where a doctor may have some performance issues.
The test, which has been around since 1975, offers only a broad indication of cognitive abilities and fails to pick up borderline problems, she said.
Extensive grazing led to slow but continual changes in composition, with some increase in diversity compared to intensive grazing and a broad indication that productivity did not decline with time.
The mixed pattern in the latest figures, which offer the first broad indication of economic performance last month, suggested to many analysts that business activity was markedly less robust than implied by big weather-related jumps in the number of payroll jobs in January and February.
A newly available European riparian zone distribution dataset and continental land-cover change information allowed us to obtain an unprecedented continental overview of riparian land conversion and associated drivers, as well as a broad indication of their loss of capacity to provide ecosystem services.
