But efforts to build a clean-energy infrastructure are not yet widespread.
All of the women I knew drank, not heavily, but wine drinking was not yet widespread.
The art of ball hawking, as he calls it, was not yet widespread.
Incidents like the loss of the data discs may be sowing doubts, but those doubts are not yet widespread.
Though acceptance is not yet widespread, many school districts and local governments now ban discrimination based on gender identity or expression.
That is because it is not yet widespread enough around the world to make it possible for travellers to rely on it.
Two colossal challenges face the Earth in the 21st century, and threaten its very habitability by human beings, yet widespread concern focuses only on one of them.
As the use of phonetic alphabets in Oriental cultures is not yet widespread, they may be converted to ideographic by means of a dictionary lookup.
Online booking is not yet widespread among corporate business travelers, most of whom are required to use company travel agencies to make their arrangements.
Some Bangladeshis fret that if India tries to overcome its own logistical problems by, in effect, using Bangladesh as a huge military marshalling yard, reprisals from China would follow.Such fears are not yet widespread.
Digital payments were described as "truly revolutionary" for developing countries by Leora Klapper, but are not yet widespread - factory workers in Bangladesh are still taking three days to travel to pay their children's school fees.
