The phrase "avoiding a period of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing strategies or actions taken to prevent a specific duration of time characterized by a particular condition or situation.
Example: "The company is focused on avoiding a period of financial instability by implementing cost-cutting measures."
Alternatives: "preventing a phase of" or "steering clear of a timeframe of".
Recommendations for non-commercial surrogacy are given, including abandoning the 1-year waiting period before adoption, currently dictated by law, avoiding a period of unnecessary psychological distress.
This was intended to allow patients to achieve sufficient plasma and hepatic levels of PegIFN/RBV before the first administration of faldaprevir, thereby avoiding a period of early functional monotherapy and minimizing the risk of selecting resistant virus.
The government's lawyers claimed that Mr Pickles scrapped regional strategies "to avoid a period of uncertainty over planning policy and inconsistent decision-making".
Although the 23-year-old New Yorker started taking naps as a means of coping before the term was popularized, she continues to rely on napping when she wants to avoid a period of problems or thinking.
The decision to confirm his starting side a week early, thus avoiding a lengthy period of speculation over Warburton's participation as well as giving the side that won in Paris more training time together, certainly appeared to pay off.
The research design, three treatment groups, including a control group avoided a short period of washout and the lack of a comparative [ 30, 31].
Labour party leadership contender Andy Burnham has called for the promised referendum on Britain's membership of the EU to be brought forward, to avoid a prolonged period of uncertainty.
Even though the burden of proof is on Anadarko, BP wants to avoid a long period of not getting paid in the hope it'll eventually be exonerated through arbitration or the courts.
Most developed countries have seen an upsurge in voter anger at the ability of rich individuals and multinational companies to find ways of avoiding tax during a period of austerity.
Haiti must avoid a prolonged period of tent cities in which people are mere refugees.
If Saudi Arabia is to avoid a prolonged period of austerity, Haykel explained, it needs foreign investment.
