"a safe year" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used to wish someone a year free from harm or danger, or to describe a year in which safety measures were successfully implemented. Example: "As we approach the end of the year, I hope that 2020 will be a safe year for all of us, filled with good health and happiness."
"You could happily spend a safe year in the closed zone today, even sleeping here," Mielczarek says.
You have to concentrate hard just to keep the plane in the air, and like many nervous flyers I read every mawkish detail about every plane crash that happens: 2017 was a safe year, but recently a plane went down in Moscow and then everyone was sick on a flight into Washington, including the pilots.
We want 2014 to be a safe year for all road users".
2017 was a safe year for air travel, with zero deaths reported on commercial flights worldwide.
By and large, it's been a relatively safe year in the country's mines.
As it is, until now, 2014 has been a remarkably safe year, and so we come to this heartbreaking little spell unprotected by habit.
Last year was a relatively safe year for China's democracy activists, environmentalists and human rights campaigners, according to the database's records.
The same can't be said for several of the instances of blade-related violence that have darkened what has otherwise been a relatively safe year in New York City.
The world's airlines had a pretty safe year in 2012 as well, with 475 fatalities from 23 airline accidents, including passenger and cargo flights, the research group said.
Compare that to 641 total air accident deaths in 2014 and the five-year average of 504, and you'll agree that it was indeed a very safe year for air travel.
Coincidentally, on the same day as the Virgin Airways laser attack, the International Air Transport Association released a report stating that 2015 was an "extraordinarily safe year" for air travel, with the global jet accident rate equivalent to just one major accident for every 3.1 million flights.
