The phrase "material expansion" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the growth or increase in physical assets, resources, or possessions. Example: The company's material expansion in the past year has resulted in a significant increase in profits and market share.
But, with Uruguay's economy ticking along at a growth rate of more than 3%, Mujica – somewhat grudgingly, it seems – accepts he must deliver material expansion.
Our economies, rather than being assumed to exist in a vacuum of unlimited material expansion, are seen as embedded in wider society, such that economic activity for its own sake is recognised as the pathology that it is.
Such seasonal variations can be explained by the temperature-dependent material expansion of rock.
This mechanism is achieved by having one end constrained while leaving the other end to displace accommodating material expansion.
It is possible that air permeation induces the material expansion just as moisture concentration induces moisture expansion.
While many of the techniques listed can involve complex equipment, some advances, like the use of line lasers to monitor material expansion require modest resources.
None of the Chinese Internet companies have made material expansions into the United States, Europe or Japan, but some are making inroads in the developing world.
Pharmaceutical R&D, education materials, expansion in Nairobi – these are just causes, but are the recipients worthy of the gifts, given how little financial risk they're actually assuming?
In addition to allowing for more of our regular material, the expansion also makes room for a new feature, Op-Extra, that will give readers a taste of the opinion journalism that appears exclusively online at nytimes.com/opinion -- not to mention the reader response to that journalism.
We argue that dilation of HD material via expansion of a rim-pore is favored over a regular, circular pore.
Population pressure, demand for fuel wood and construction material, agricultural expansion and policy and tenure insecurity were the major driving forces behind the land use/cover change.
