The phrase "afford more time" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the ability to provide or allow additional time for a task or activity.
Example: "We need to afford more time for the project to ensure its success."
Alternatives: "allow more time" or "provide additional time".
"Narrowing the curriculum" by eliminating history and science to afford more time for math and reading reflects the tunnel vision of American education.
In the days when peers received only a £13.50 daily attendance allowance, he could not afford more time away from his legal practice.
The delay, during which some of the immigrants will be eligible to work in the United States, will afford more time for Central America's economy to recover from the late-season storm, Mrs. Meissner said.
He will hope to be afforded more time to get things right than his predecessor.
While Clarke will be afforded more time than his team-mate Shane Watson was, another failure in the second innings will prompt unwelcome questions of the skipper.
By eliminating the need for cement clean up, occlusal access closure, and occlusal adjustments after insertion, the dentist is afforded more time to attend to the patient's general needs.
— together known as the troika — will go on a fact-finding trip to Athens on Monday to assess whether Greeks should be afforded more time to right their finances.
2. This board, representing voters in the second largest county in Florida, needs additional time to complete all necessary tabulation, and should be afforded more time than boards representing voters in less-populated counties.
She just wishes it were different -- that in this stark and unremitting cycle of illness, in a time when hospital administrators put "care" and "cost containment" in the same sentence, she could be afforded more time at the bedside.
Due to the NHL lockout, Reimer was afforded more time to heal and attended training camp in January 2013.
Between that, the 33 full-color photographs of the looks on models stapled into the faux-playbill and the opportunity to examine the clothes up close on egress, it actually afforded more time not less.
