"spanning the breadth" is a perfectly acceptable phrase to use in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that covers or extends over a large area. For example, "The research project spanned the breadth of the continent, including countries such as Canada, Mexico, and Brazil."
A floor-to-ceiling bookcase offers every Graham Greene book you can think off, plus a selection of boardgames and DVDs spanning the breadth of tastes from The Princess Diaries to The Last King of Scotland.
Guantánamo Diary is a "brutally original" memoir, said the prize jury on Monday, as they revealed a longlist described as spanning "the breadth of non-fiction writing, from literary biography and history to journalism and travel writing".
Here, amid rows of burial mounds spanning the breadth of some 15 football fields, he watched two goose-stepping soldiers lay a wreath to the 490,000 people interred here who perished during the Nazis' 900-day siege of Leningrad, as the city was called, from 1941 to 1944.
True, you age and die, but there are always bubbles (universes) spanning the breadth of eternity.
The data provide DNA content values for 12 of the 19 recognized orders of brown algae spanning the breadth of the class.
These data provide DNA content values for 12 of the 19 recognized orders of brown algae spanning the breadth of the class.
The success of Ukip may be a British story, but it reflects a trend that spans the breadth of Europe.
Through the story of her itch, he spans the breadth of medical science from neurology to obsessive-compulsive disorder, trying to find out what might be to blame.
The schools span the breadth of France, from Amiens in Normandy to Brest on the western tip of Brittany to Pau near the Spanish border, and would merge under the name of France Business School under the proposal.
"Savage Beauty" spans the breadth of his career, from his 1992 graduate collection to his last, unfinished Autumn/Winter 2010 collection, and has been described as something of a homecoming.
Nevertheless, it raises more questions about how the world's most wanted man managed to shunt his family between cities that span the breadth of Pakistan, apparently undetected and unmolested by the otherwise formidable security services.
