The phrase "a year altogether" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the total duration of one year, often in the context of summarizing or concluding a period of time.
Example: "After working on this project for a year altogether, we finally achieved our goals."
Alternatives: "a full year" or "one complete year".
Chávez has spent more than a year altogether on trips abroad since taking office, in February, 1999, and so the jet is a kind of second home.
He conducted against King George III a long and brilliant vendetta; for this reason he was almost always in political opposition and, in fact, held high office for less than a year altogether.
In 2005, it was reported that in Kerala alone, ˜25,000 female infanticides occurred in a year Altogether, these estimates are impressive.
He was in prison for six-and-a-half years altogether.
Americans altogether spend $40 billion a year on our lawns, an amount roughly equal to the entire federal tax revenue of India.
What is cause for concern is that because of the legislative impasse over Democratic demands for more spending, Gov. George Pataki has threatened to do without a budget for the new year altogether, relying instead on an indefinite series of emergency spending measures.
Follow-up rates in the outpatient clinic were 94·8percentnt at 2 3 months and 87·1 per cent at 1 year; altogether only 28 (0·5 per cent) of the 6030 patients were completely lost to follow-up during the first year after surgery.
Within a period of 12 years altogether 27 projects have been performed.
America's most popular romance writer, Nora Roberts has penned an average of 6 books a year since 1981 -- altogether 214 books.
Clinical analysis of this condition reveals the formation of a cycle or loop of anxiety, which is vicious enough to propel a person to spend months and years altogether in the recurring cycle of anxiety.
"Six years altogether, until the war came along.
