It is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the broadening of a subject or problem, often to include areas that were not previously addressed. For example, "The research project expanded its scope to include studies of several different species."
The expanding scope of polyphosphazenes in materials science is described.
Even with the Studio Museum's expanding scope, African-American art will remain its focus.
The fraudsters operate with virtual impunity, so expanding the programmes simply risked expanding scope for corruption.
Its expanding scope required an explicit formulation of its underlying conceptual framework and process.
Despite the brevity of Fassbinder's career, his stylistic development was rapid, keeping pace with the expanding scope of his vision.
For Mount Sinai, the expanding scope of the investigation yesterday appeared to heighten pressure for a formal plan to improve liver transplant procedures.
Beginning tomorrow, Mr. Egoyan's expanding scope will be the basis for a retrospective at Anthology Film Archives, 32-34 Second Avenue, at Second Street in the East Village.
Long before Freud and Jung, he instinctively understood the multiplicity within the human psyche, and he mirrored it in a printed oeuvre of mind-expanding scope and profundity.
The game's ever-expanding scope and regular demands for micro-managing resources create an enthralling parallax effect that can keep devoted players dosed, for hours, on the pleasurable sense of immersion that the psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi calls "flow".
But a fair accounting of the problems of the office of the independent counsel the ever-expanding scope, length, and cost of its work, and its insistent focus on behavior that may not be criminal at all suggest that these problems owe more to the nature of the law establishing the office than to any particular occupant.
But a fair accounting of the problems of the office of the independent counsel — the ever-expanding scope, length, and cost of its work, and its insistent focus on behavior that may not be criminal at all — suggest that these problems owe more to the nature of the law establishing the office than to any particular occupant.
