Dec 23, 2014you can say "wide experience", which is why you get google hits, but it doesn't match this context. "wide experience" is used when talking about a variety of experience, whereas. Aug 4, 2020adding "wide" to "variety" emphasizes the "many" part of "many different things".
Similarly we say "a wide range" or "a narrow range" or just "a range".. My eyes were wide open. Mar 6, 2018i would choose bigger or larger, because wider give us the ideia of taking this to another discussion, like what could have been the reason for that score gap.
Have you ever been faced with the need to explain the difference in usage between "far and wide" and "high and low"?