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The phrase "widening by" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an increase in size, scope, or extent, often in a quantitative context. Example: "The river is widening by several meters each year due to erosion."
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The ratio is widening by the year, fuelled by, and creating, even more resentment and suspicion.
This at a time when, the association says, the funding gap in adult social care is widening by £700m annually.
Right at the start, the symphony's fateful three-note motto has the action of a turning screw, its intervals widening by degrees.
Council leaders say the funding gap is widening by £700m a year and is set to be at least £4.3bn by 2020.
The deficit on trade in goods alone was £12.1bn, widening by £2.6bn from July and worse than the £11.3bn gap forecast by economists in the Reuters poll.
The chasm between elite purpose and popular support is widening by the day, with little to suggest that political support for austerity without growth can be sustained for much longer.
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The line can be rotated or widened by pinching.
In the early 2000s, they were widened by a few feet.
And, since the late nineteen-eighties, that price gap has widened by almost forty per cent.
The commercial use of coated strip has been widened by two additional bath compositions.
Her lead in the race to capture the Democratic nomination widened by the day.
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