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Discover LudwigThe phrase "allow a margin" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the need for flexibility or extra space in various contexts, such as budgeting, planning, or design.
Example: "When creating the budget, make sure to allow a margin for unexpected expenses."
Alternatives: "provide some leeway" or "include a buffer."
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The other main principle demanded was to allow a "margin of appreciation" - giving national governments greater leeway in applying the judgements of the court.
The buffer zone (typically of the length of S b/j = 100 m) is the distance added to the braking distance of trailing HS train to allow a margin for its safe separation from the leading train (i) [22, 23].
In enterprise applications relying on fault-tolerant middleware, it is a common engineering practice to establish service-level agreements (SLAs) based on the 95th or the 99th percentiles of the latency, to allow a margin for unexpected variability.
Safety factors and assumptions are incorporated into these models to allow a margin of error.
To allow a margin of safety, 40 days after weaning was used for all subsequent cell-isolation experiments in a standardized parturition protocol with mating at 42 days.
This time frame was set to allow a margin of error of 30 minutes for a reported information and because assessment of restraint use per care unit took an average of another 30 minutes.
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"Given the severity of this new test and the newness of the technology required to measure these small levels of pollutants, the commission has also allowed a margin for error within the functioning of the test equipment".
As the author Stephen Williams wrote in 1985, "even allowing a margin for invention, what remains is terrible enough.
This goal is not easily reconciled with an assessment mechanism that allows a margin of error in SNP choice.
Allowing a margin of 20% loss during follow-up, this gives a figure of 320 patients in total.
Allowing a margin of 10% loss during follow-up, including the small number of patients who die in the first year following their injury, this gives a figure of 460 patients in total.
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