The phrase "expands in width" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is increasing in its width or becoming wider. Example: The bridge expands in width as it crosses the river, allowing for more lanes of traffic to pass through. In this example, the phrase is used to describe the physical widening of the bridge as it spans across the river.
The main passage forming the Dinaledi Chamber is ∼25 50 cm wide at its narrowest and ∼10 m long, and expands in width near the intersections with cross-cutting passages.
This marginal rim is consistently 0.5 mm wide except in the largest specimens, where it expands in width to 1 mm; the marginal rim is, therefore, comparatively wider in juveniles compared to adults.
Since then, the route has been expanded in width and extended by 15.5 km to Woodbine Avenue just south of Ravenshoe Road in the town of East Gwillimbury.
In the mature internode 9, both vascular and interfascicular regions expanded in width, and secondary cell wall development was almost complete (Fig. 1f).
During maturation, these crystals expand in width and thickness to fill the space previously occupied by the matrix proteins, which are degraded and removed, leaving mature enamel with only traces of protein on eruption.
This recessed area in IVPP V 12378 expands in anteroposterior width towards its dorsal preserved margin, where it is overhung by a ridge; a similar ridge on the squamosal that overhangs the tip of the anterior process is present in G. stipanicicorum (e.g. MCZ 4117; Figure 1).
We will, therefore, expand the network in width, based on the method of distribution of the detected interval of sensors into subintervals.
This pattern is easily recognized at several locations along the Tanada Lake Trail in WRST where a single-thread trail of <3 m width crosses from well-drained mineral soils to poorly-drained organic soils and quickly expands to >100 m in width with >5 individual tracks (Fig. 3).
A CT scan showed a lesion measuring 8 cm in length and 4 cm in width, expanding and partly destroying the thin cortex.
However, the very high levels of traffic due to being the main highway between Baltimore and Philadelphia led to calls for the highway to be expanded to 40 feet in width along its entire length by 1934.
By 1934, heavy traffic between Baltimore and Sparrows Point led the Maryland State Roads Commission to recommend MD 151 and MD 20 from Sparrows Point to Baltimore be expanded from 20-40 feet in width.
