The phrase "allow a delay" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the permission or acceptance of a postponement in a process or schedule.
Example: "Due to unforeseen circumstances, we must allow a delay in the project timeline."
Alternatives: "permit a delay" or "grant a delay."
Representative Kay Granger of Texas, a Republican whose district includes the area around the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, plans to introduce a bill on Tuesday that would allow a delay.
Verizon Wireless, for example, will sometimes agree to sell a phone at the discounted price and allow a delay before it is activated, said Brenda Raney, a spokeswoman for the company.
Still with miners, Vedanta Resources rose 44p to £22.09 after the Indian Supreme Court agreed to allow a delay to the proposed closure of the company's copper smelting plant until the middle of the month.
As EU leaders gathered to discuss an extension to article 50 of about nine months, May dropped her promise not to allow a delay to Brexit beyond 30 June while she was prime minister.
In Spain, where the licence terms committed operators to launching their services in August of this year, the terms have been modified to allow a delay until June 2002.Many operators are hoping for concessions in other areas, too.
His decision to do so came following criticism of his administration's decision to allow a delay in a United Nations Human Rights Council vote on a report concluding that Israel and the militant Hamas movement both committed war crimes during the war in Gaza.
21 under a legal provision that allows a delay "in the interests of justice," according to Mr. Lindenauer's attorney, Irving P. Seidman.
By contrast, the US National Institutes of Health allows a delay of up to a year before papers from its funding must be made openly available.
The combination of numeric and symbolic calculus allows a delay in the dot product, and in performing them in one pass.
Before this case surfaced, the C.I.A. has said it had discontinued the ghost detainee practice, but said that the Geneva Conventions allowed a delay in the identification of prisoners to avoid disclosing their whereabouts to an enemy.
But if the government allowed a delay of another four or five months, he warned, communities would become cynical about the promise of peace, like they have with past broken promises.
