The phrase "expand the extent" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to increase or enlarge the scope or range of something. Example: The company plans to expand the extent of their global reach by entering new markets in Asia.
It is urgent to expand the extent and range of giant panda habitat to allow giant pandas to move across landscapes in the face of ongoing climate warming.
Thus the Dutch were able to dramatically expand the extent of their territorial control in a short space of time, and avoid the need for further fighting.
Cosmids C49 and C45 were identified by using probes abyA2 and abyF1, respectively, and sequenced to expand the extent of the aby gene cluster.
Privacy advocates saw the suit as a transparent (but abortive) attempt to set a precedent greatly expanding the extent to which tech companies would be required to help law enforcement.
OSLO, March 31 (Reuters) - Global warming is expanding the extent of sea ice around Antarctica in winter in a paradoxical shift caused by cold plumes of summer melt water that re-freeze fast when temperatures drop, a study showed on Sunday.
As shown in Table 3, our broad screen significantly expands the extent to which Nup homologues can be identified across the eukaryote tree.
One is expanding the extent of financial protection available to the population, principally through reducing out-of-pocket expenditure.
Once the predictive power was established, we expanded the extent of the drug response information from a few thousand experimental data points to millions of predicted node values.
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson expanded the extent of affirmative action in Executive Order 11,246 providing equal opportunity in federal employment [ 33].
32 Combinatorial use of silent information has potential for greatly expanding the extent of resulting, explicit information, as is demonstrated in the case of the bacterium Anaplasma, which can create apparently hundreds of antigenically distinct MSP2 variants from an archive of merely five unique pseudogenes, and no intact genes.
The objectives of this study were twofold: i) to expand the spatial extent of ground sample plots to HPs, and ii) to assess the spatial matching of the identified HPs with remotely sensed datasets of coarse resolution.
