This phrase is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to providing more opportunities, such as educational or job opportunities, to people who may not have had them otherwise. For example, "The government has been working to increase their opportunities for single mothers by providing free education and job training courses."
"This $37 billion could be used to fund initiatives to support America's small businesses — the nation's biggest job creators — by increasing their access to capital, increasing their opportunities to invest and rewarding entrepreneurship," the report says.
On the other hand, this group of workers could be more disadvantaged in terms of labor market opportunities, possibly because their human and search capital was largely depreciated and thus, the ICS policy reached its target of increasing their opportunities in the labor market.
A difference in attitudes about education between the races was apparent as freed blacks saw education as the key to increasing their opportunities, or at least escaping conditions they had endured during servitude.
While some people obsess over where to meet attractive dating partners, and end up doing weird skits in grocery stores that only scare people away, others are increasing their opportunities by attending events that cater to singles.
The two adaptation patterns have different optimal species-survival strategies: the procryptics die out as quickly as possible after completing reproduction, thus reducing the opportunity for predators to learn how to detect them; the aposematics have longer post-reproductive survival, thus increasing their opportunity to condition predators.
Third, patients with the studied conditions received fasting glucose tests somewhat more frequently, thereby increasing their opportunity for a diabetes diagnosis.
Higher winter discharge may have allowed a higher fraction of early-returning hatchery-produced adults upstream of the weir, increasing their opportunity to spawn with wild fish.
Girls might often be involved in housework-related chores, such as washing clothes in water, or might have more frequent contact with dogs than boys do, increasing their opportunity to be exposed to T. canis; thus, subsequent studies are required.
Key said both countries had been pursuing deeper economic ties with China, which could increase their opportunities to make their case diplomatically.
In previous decades, workers of all kinds moved to high-wage states, and particularly to high-wage cities such as Boston, San Francisco, and New York, to increase their opportunities.
"The coalition government is making the vital reforms in childcare, schools and further education needed to improve children's lives and increase their opportunities".
