The phrase "span a distance" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
Example: The bridge's length is impressive, as it is able to span a distance of over 1,000 feet.
Crammed inside every human cell are numerous strands of chromosomal DNA that, if laid end-to-end, would span a distance of about two meters.
The dam, which is situated between steep hills and will span a distance of about eight football fields, will have the same impact as a "natural waterfall," the government said in response to the report by the Mekong River Commission.
Polar vortices tend to strengthen in the winter and weaken in the summer and can span a distance of more than 1,200 miles, with the air circulating in an anti-clockwise fashion around the North Pole.
The airline's chief executive officer, Akbar Al Baker, told Bloomberg Business that the proposed Doha to Auckland route would span a distance of 9,034 miles – or 14,539km – and take an estimated 18 hours and 34 minutes to complete.
If you were to draw a straight line from Mauna Kea (elevation: 13,796 ft). to Kawaikini (elevation: 5226 ft). it would span a distance of 303 miles.
Starting from the generation station in Labrador, the power lines span a distance of 1800 m over the Churchill River gorge and run generally south-southwest for 203 km as three side-by-side power lines in a cleared right-of-way with a width of 216 metres (710 ft).
Researchers sampled from sites off the northwest coast of Africa, spanning a distance of more than 550 miles.
TFIIS extends from the polymerase surface via a pore to the internal active site, spanning a distance of 100 Å.
It is an archipelago that lies across the Equator and spans a distance equivalent to one-eighth of Earth's circumference.
Rf2 co-mapped in G6 with two bins containing the SNP_IGA_623894 and SNP_IGA_625843 markers (map positions 9.2 and 9.9 cM) and four more SNPs that spanned a distance of 0.7 Mbp, and was flanked by SNP_IGA_622231 (5,606,752 bp) and SSR UDP96-001 (7,040,897 bp) with map positions of 7.2 and 10.6 cM, respectively, and covering a total physical distance of 1.4 Mbp.
From the above random access transport capacity, we can find the spatial density of successful transmissions at rate log(1+ζ) that spans a distance d S D when each node relays its data using the AF strategy.
