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Discover LudwigThe phrase "have some headroom" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the availability of space or capacity, often in contexts like finance, engineering, or personal space.
Example: "Before making any large investments, it's important to ensure that you have some headroom in your budget."
Alternatives: "have some leeway" or "have some flexibility."
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"I think we still have some headroom, some ambition that we want to achieve.
"Firefox uses less system resources than the other major browsers so we have some headroom.
In this supply model, it is important to have some headroom in the budget for the fixed monthly part of the contractual framework, compensating for possible variations in the volume of delivered requests to be billed in the variable part.
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The United States and some other developed nations would appear to have little headroom to deal with the costs of another bank crisis — much less, say, a new war.
At present some councils have the necessary headroom to borrow but do not have a local need to build housing, while others wish to build but have already reached the borrowing cap.
The containers the stowaways were found inside are 40ft long, 8ft wide and have 8ft headroom.
"Once borrowing for recurrent expenditure is under control, we will have more headroom to take on and deploy so-called good debt.
Accommodating one or two kids from babyhood (though you pay extra for baby fittings), they come with ergonomic padding, have generous headroom (for when your 10-year-old begs to have a go) and even tinted windows.
The Hummer-brand planes will have ample headroom for big-hair ladies, dozens of pews with easy access to the putting greens, and drop-down TV monitors, which will show libido-crushing abstinence education videos.
THEY have less headroom, legroom and elbowroom than wide-body jets, but smaller planes are playing a growing role in American air travel, whether business travelers like it or not.
Analysis by Moody's, a rating agency, shows that the vast majority of highly rated companies in America and Europe have enough headroom, in the form of cash and undrawn bank facilities, to be able to survive for 12 months without needing new financing.
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