They decided to spread the building process over three years.

他们决定在三年内分期完成该建造过程。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The process through which information gets spread unofficially throughout the company.

信息在公司内迅速非正式传播的过程。

youdao

Find a good description of the dating process here. After carbon-14 spread throughout the globe, tiny amounts of the gas were taken up by the slow-growing mosses.

在碳- 14散布到全球之后，微量的这种气体被缓慢生长的苔藓吸收。

youdao

This process made cells spread out on the surface of culture plates, in a similar way to cancer cells moving out from a tumour.

BBC: NEWS | Health | Molecule 'helps cancer to spread'

But Maggie Gallagher, an advocate who writes extensively against gay marriage, said the strategies could have a chilling effect on the democratic process and surely will spread as long as organizers are effective in intimidating voters.

FORBES: Gay rights activists outing their opponents' political orientation

And if later in the process they find themselves spread hither and thither in different states, talking to voters only on television, here they are real live politicians going about modern-day politics using old-fashioned tools: stump speeches, hokey fund raisers, dinners in diners.

CNN: Hot politics on cold days