Sentence examples for were more widespread from inspiring English sources

Such changes to the rules are mandated every three years, but this year's were more widespread.

Since then, there have been other suggestions that hot spots were more widespread than originally imagined.

Public appetites were more widespread, and in their satisfaction, the industrialist Andrew Carnegie played a pioneering role.

Milner's introduction at the expense of Navas did bring some more impetus but the home team's problems were more widespread.

Coming in the wake of the Arab Spring, the protests were more widespread than anything Putin had previously faced.

And if electricity were more widespread, then girls such as Esther wouldn't put the lives of their fellow students in danger as they cram their lessons by candlelight.

But they also cautioned that it is not clear whether any of these patterns were more widespread, or had anything to do with the blackout.

Keaton was great in the role, although for me, Birdman's glories were more widespread and weren't really all about his central performance.

When Section 1310 of the State Public Health Law — the scooper law — went into effect, the violations were more widespread, and more conspicuous.

He told the Guardian he believed problems he spotted in a frenzied half-hour of trading on 28 September were more widespread.

Speakers at the conference presented evidence that questionable financial ties between industry and researchers who test drugs or medical devices were more widespread than previously believed.