The phrase "allowed us to avoid" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a situation where a certain action or decision helped prevent an undesirable outcome.
Example: "The new safety measures allowed us to avoid any accidents during the event."
Alternatives: "enabled us to evade" or "helped us steer clear of".
This allowed us to avoid using a markedly different dose from the true dose, which would have increased the number of patients required to achieve the predetermined numbers of crossovers.
The approach that we adopted allowed us to avoid the use of chlorocarbon solvent and enabled catalyst recycling.
It also allowed us to avoid the use of suture anchors, which can dislodge and add cost to the procedure.
Furthermore, this transformation allowed us to avoid the use of non-parametric testing, which has its own pitfalls regarding assumptions of the underlying data distribution.
Such sample preparation allowed us to avoid the use of fixative media and paraffin having IR spectral signatures that can mask absorption bands of biological components [ 21].
Use of this route for sensitization not only allowed us to avoid the use of any kind of adjuvants but also allowed us to observe the true effects of the allergens used without having any unwanted external stimulations or influences.
Having multiple Δ-17 desaturases allowed us to avoid repeated use of a single ORF, thereby reducing the chance of unwanted recombination events and increasing the stability of the engineered strain.
The use of adjuvant DDA allowed us to avoid the harmful effects of oil and bacterial proteins present in Freund's adjuvants [ 35, 36].
The rationale for this approach was: A) to avoid false positives, such as dihydropicolinate synthase, which shows similarity with NanA, and several sugar kinases that were retrieved when we searched for NanK homologues; and B) BLAST search using S. aureus N315 allowed us to avoid false negatives due to the low similarity of S. aureus Nan genes with the Nan genes from V. cholerae N16961.
Because forest fragments were isolated in different years, our use of time since fragmentation allowed us to avoid a potentially confounding interaction between fragment age and the weather conditions of a particular year.
The fast sequence files were aligned against the 11 chromosome sequences using Bowtie2 [ 68] in local mode (which allowed us to avoid trimming of adapter sequences from ends prior to alignment), using the following parameters: -D 20 –R 3 –N 1 –L 20 –I S,1,0.50.
