The phrase "allow a period of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to granting time for a specific purpose or activity.
Example: "Please allow a period of two weeks for processing your application."
Alternatives: "grant a timeframe of" or "provide a duration of".
After receipt of such applications, the FCC will allow a period of 20 days for comments or objections in response to the notifications indicated.
Even then, they add, Beijing may wait another day or more to allow a period of mourning for the pilot, who has become a national hero, before letting the American crew go.
The Senate's chief whip, Luigi Zanda, asked on Wednesday to put off the bill for a week to allow "a period of reflection so we can pull the political threads back together".
An anonymous buyer has been found – someone sympathetic to what has gone on here for so long and willing, therefore, to allow a period of grace before taking possession.
The most senior delegation from the Hamas government to visit Britain is in London this week to promote its offer to allow a period of "co-existence" with Israel as a way to move to an eventual settlement of the Middle East conflict.
The immigration judges, in scheduling hearings, shall allow a period of time for DHS to undertake the necessary identity, law enforcement, or security investigations or examinations prior to the date that an application is scheduled for hearing and disposition, with a view to minimizing the number of cases in which hearings must be continued.
The government allowed a period of rigorous private competition – which ended, as all such cycles do, with the rise of a monopoly: Western Union.
On day 14, the pumps were surgically removed under halothane anesthesia and the animals were allowed a period of 6 h to recover before any behavioral testing.
Over the initial objections of the Governor and law enforcement officials, the bill allows a period of grace for checks of $2,500 or more, and shorter periods for smaller checks.
Similarly, processing grain to an optimal particle size, inclusion of ionophores in the diet and allowing a period of adaptation during the transition from forage to grain diets lowers the incidence of feedlot bloat.
"Accordingly, the monitor is of the view that the applicant should be allowed a period of time to further pursue its restructuring efforts and to commence a process for identifying an alternate equity investor or source of postemergence financing," Ernst & Young said in its report.
