"restrict the range" is correct usage in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which something is limited or confined by set parameters or boundaries. For example, "The government has decided to restrict the range of activities that are allowed in the park".
Natural selection has tailored the developmental characteristics of animals to the natural ranges of variation of their environments, so that human restriction of those environments tends to restrict the range of variety within species dependent on them.
As studies for the US Federal Reserve and other such bolsheviks show, cash incentives narrow people's focus and restrict the range of their thinking.
The problem with motion and conventional robots is that hard joints don't just allow movement, and they restrict the range of motion.
It is undemocratic for MPs and MEPs to have powers to so tightly restrict the range of candidates running in a leadership election".
Almost all the cultivable soils have moderate to severe limitations that restrict the range of crops or require special conservation practices.
Some people may wonder whether Facebook wants to overwhelm them with privacy options, in the hope that the typical user will simply give up trying to restrict the range of information shared publicly.
Vince Cable, the business secretary, said he had called on Ofcom, Britain's media regulator, to investigate whether the deal would restrict the range of media options available to the public.
Collectively the artists in "The (S) Files" tend to have somewhat different credentials in biology, sociology, mathematics and telecommunications, earned at institutions that range — and I restrict the range to New York City — from Columbia University to Apex Technical School.
The book on which I'm currently working explores how establishment media systems restrict the range of acceptable debate in US political discourse, and I'm using Chomsky's treatment by (and ultimate exclusion from) establishment US media outlets as a window for understanding how that works.
Hence, we present a Proposition to restrict the range
We see that these extreme values clearly restrict the range of ∣I∣.
