The phrase "widely lacking" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express that something is missing or unavailable on a large scale. For example, “Access to quality healthcare is widely lacking in much of the developing world.”.
However, this information is widely lacking, which is likely to have significant clinical consequences.
The results of recent studies vary widely, lacking robustness and thus hampering their application in policy making.
However, several questions regarding the series and timing of functional and physical gene losses remain unclear, in part because functional data are widely lacking.
Many traditional and non-processed foods consumed by rural communities, such as millet and caribou, are nutrient-dense and offer healthy fatty acids, micronutrients and cleansing properties widely lacking in diets popular in high- and middle-income countries, say experts.
Even though the regional chronostratigraphic relationship of the Buchchagy Ice Complex to the Last Interglacial remains unclear because numerical dating is widely lacking, the present study indicates permafrost (Ice Complex) formation during MIS5 sensu lato, and its preservation afterwards.
We understand our results as a hypothesis that needs to be tested with specific monitoring and field studies and (based on these data which are widely lacking today) more complex modelling of future exposure risk of pesticides to amphibians.
However, they widely lacked positive outcomes.
The melanoma epigenome widely lacks 5-hmC, in association with tumor progression and downregulation of the TET family genes [ 101].
The type I keratin K19 is the smallest keratin and is exceptional since it widely lacks the non-α-helical tail domain typical for all other keratins (Bader et al. 1986).
In Bangladesh, the most at risk population, such as female sex workers, injecting drug users, MSM (men having sex with men), transgenders, street and brother based children, Yaba drug users widely lack knowledge about ways of transmission of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Such a move would be a huge coup for Labour – strategically far more important to the next general election than the closure of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, which, though widely read, lacked political influence.
