"to allow room for" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to make space or provide opportunity for something. Example: In order to accommodate more guests, we decided to rearrange the furniture in the living room to allow room for additional chairs and tables.
Cut 2x4s to the height of the door plus 1 1/2 inches (5.1 cm) to allow room for the top of the frame and allowance for leveling the jamb.
Traditionally, people tend to overprice their homes a bit anyway, to allow room for negotiation.
But why do the raspberries have to be cut back to allow room for budding blooms, Michael?
But to allow room for luggage, the rear seat is taken out, which still allows room for 10 passengers.
The goal is to allow room for multiple expressions of what Mr. Lawrence calls "participatory culture," while leveraging the power of the Web to create and share information.
China's territorial disputes, for example, with the possible exception of the one with India, which is big enough to allow room for a conceivable compromise, are zero-sum.
Midhat transformed the face of Baghdad by ordering the demolition of a section of the old city wall to allow room for rational urban expansion.
"Why can't home plate just be at home plate?" Sorge explained that the main ball field had to be shifted to allow room for the other two fields.
The Conservatives say that they will spend less to allow room for tax cuts.In the short term, the spending spree entails both political and economic risks.
But critics said it was neither long enough nor wide enough to allow room for such a large jet to compensate for error.
When a road in Brooklyn was narrowed to allow room for a bicycle path, The Brooklyn Skyline led its story with "Oriental Boulevard has officially been 'necked' down".
