The phrase "exceed by a wide margin" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe the difference between two measurements, quantity, or qualities. For example, "The amount of rainfall exceeded the average by a wide margin this year."
Although small relative to the developed world, wages paid in factories serving multinationals like Nike exceed, often by a wide margin, those prevailing in the surrounding economy.
This week our Collaboration Summit had to close registration weeks early as demand exceeded capacity by a wide margin.
Table 1 shows that the crude birth rates all remain very high and that with declining mortality though the levels are still very high, the range of variation in rates of natural increase has uniformly exceeded unity by a wide margin in all African regions and countries and over time (the one-time negative value for Rwanda is due to the mortality crisis during Rwandan genocide).
Benefits exceed costs, sometimes by a wide margin, for all but one of the treatments considered.Next, the authors investigate improving nutrition in young children.
Despite most of them not having a team of their own to root for, World Cup audiences in these regions are expected to exceed previous records by a wide margin.
Certainly, nobody expects these also-rans to exceed consensus forecasts by a wide margin.
In the 10 poorest metro areas, eight exceed that number by a wide margin, including Hot Springs, Arkansas, where 17.3percentt of its workforce is employed in retail.
Its sales forecast for the first quarter exceeded analysts' expectations by a wide margin.
Since imports from China already exceed exports to China by a wide margin, the gaping $62 billion trade deficit is likely to widen rather than contract.
Mr. Rehn must be tough enough on big countries like France — which is set to exceed its deficit targets by a wide margin — to earn recognition as a credible watchdog.
