"spread resources" is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to refer to the division or distribution of resources so that they are available to a wider range of people. For example, you could say, "We need to devise a plan to spread resources more evenly throughout the city."
He had no need of what they called the prison system's "thinly spread" resources, they wrote.
In that speech he specifically rejected "the concern that a seven-day NHS might spread resources too thinly".
His task in the coming months will be to concentrate his its thinly spread resources (including his own parliamentary candidacy) on those constituencies.
Residents questioned whether the strategy of promoting Hanley at the expense of Stoke's other towns had spread resources too thinly.
Previous studies have documented that aggregated federal R&D funding has become more dispersed over time and attributed this to political pressure to spread resources more evenly.
The idea is to spread resources over multiple nodes, share virtually nothing across those nodes and bet on Intel to increase performance over time.
The report concludes: "The government must continue to distribute QR funding according to excellence, but at the same time it must not spread resource so thinly that we risk damaging our world-class research areas within our research-intensive universities".
The let-them-loose approach spreads resources thinly and indiscriminately.
Economics tells us that spreading resources too thinly will always restrict growth.
Hunt's plan for a seven-day NHS spreads resources too thinly and focuses too much on doctors.
Gore campaign officials say they feel enormous pressure because they have less to spend than the Republicans, who are spreading resources in more states.
