The phrase "stretched capacities" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a situation where one's abilities or capabilities are being pushed to their limits. Example: After taking on multiple projects at once, her stretched capacities led to exhaustion and burnout.
"The biggest vulnerability is layoffs in local and state public health departments have stretched capacity to the limit," says Jeffrey Levi, a public health specialist who heads the Trust for America's Health.
In preparation for the demand, Charles decided to take walls down between the main room and the smaller room, Chroma, to fit the already stretched capacity.
The cost of doing public audits has increased dramatically, stretching capacity thin.
Central obesity usually results in increased visceral fat and a sphere-like baseline shape of the abdominal cavity with poor stretching capacity, whereas in peripheral obesity the internal abdominal diameter is shaped as an ellipse and has a huge stretching capacity (and thus higher abdominal compliance) [27].
David Fedson, a retired medical director of Aventis-Pasteur, argues that to stretch capacity now, the U.S. should be testing very low doses of H5N1 vaccine with an additive called an adjuvant that boosts the body's immune response.
The seats were covered in girdle material, used because of its stretching capacity and ability to be easily dyed.
Shelters and some faith communities stretched their capacities in order to make more beds available to more people for more nights.
The results of this study indicate that although the facilities stretched their capacities and pulled through, it may not be pragmatic to continue doing so every year.
Legal service providers are stretched to capacity, and the federal resources necessary to expand this capacity have yet to materialize.
Mental health services are stretched to capacity; lots of people have a hard time getting help.
