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"making allowances" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are granting a certain amount of leniency or allowance for an action or situation. Example sentence: "I understand your situation, so I'm making allowances for the delay in payment."
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And as much as anything else, he blames himself for making allowances, for allowing some players to get away with a bit too much.
Yet, even after making allowances for transaction costs, the results are depressing.
Being inflexible was what successful people did, since making allowances simply signalled weakness.
But when asked about "natural growth" of families in the settlements, a majority favored making allowances.
More typically, though, a man and woman in their 50's spend the first date making allowances for its absence.
Even making allowances for sentimentality, one has to admit that good can come out of bad experiences.
Even making allowances for all the unofficial catch it is still small compared with the numbers killed by ship collisions and nets.
Their predictions, it turned out, were less reliable in falling markets than in rising ones, even after making allowances for increased volatility in such times.
Therefore, in our minds, such people either don't exist, or their way of thinking is so alien that we have no way of making allowances for their presence.
Are we all courteous maniacs discreetly making allowances for everyone else's derangement?" Caroline asks her friend the Baron, one of her "comforters".
Officials say they are not stopping immigration agents from arresting criminals and are making allowances so agents can take serious offenders into custody at state prisons.
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