"widened the focus" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to broaden or expand the scope or attention given to a particular topic or issue. Example: The company's new CEO widened the focus of their marketing strategy to include social media and targeted online advertisements, resulting in a significant increase in sales.
Concomitantly, more groups of stakeholders (such as ship captains or tugboat operators) were not interviewed, as this would have widened the focus too greatly for a qualitative study of this nature.
Power and her colleagues widened the focus of study from legal and government documents to include "agrarian, archaeological, demographic, settlement, landscape and urban" evidence.
Here Mr. Parnell widens the focus to include discussion of the supernatural.
Two bold new histories widen the focus, adding context and meaning.
Later sections widen the focus to include athletes, soldiers and other local heroes who are now obscure.
These are films looking to make grand statements about the war, and widen the focus of the traditional Anglo-American military-action setting.
Logroño's centralized location in the Ebro valley has helped widen the focus of the city's service sector to include neighbouring communities.
Yesterday's green paper represented a attempt to widen the focus to embrace the relationships between parents, children and the wider family.
This series widens the focus to include two other members of the Garrel family: his father, Maurice, and his son Louis, both actors.
Why can't the DfT conduct a British Road Safety survey which would ask similar questions, widening the focus towards danger reduction and risk perception rather than the narrow measure of casualty reduction?
But one thing is for sure: now that this brand of reporting has proven productive, we can expect that other news organizations will begin to widen the focus to other figures.
