The phrase "a year characterised" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the defining features or notable events of a specific year.
Example: "The year 2020 was characterised by a global pandemic that changed the way we live and work."
Alternatives: "a year defined" or "a year marked".
The meetings brought positive closure to a year characterised by tremendous highs on the pitch and dismal lows off it.
In a year characterised by nostalgia and the rush to find the next old thing, Lowry was given his first retrospective at Tate Britain, and attracted blockbuster visitor numbers.
In a year characterised by the electoral gains of people and parties associated with the right, racism, xenophobia and nationalism, Khan's decisive victory in May was a sweet, bright moment for those on the flipside of an increasingly binary political landscape.
Even so, Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and chief executive, said: "We are pleased with our performance during a year characterised by mixed global economic and financial conditions... Looking ahead, we see evidence of a continued pick up in momentum for the global economy that will improve the opportunity set for 2015".
Sajid Javid joined a panel discussing whether 2017 was "the best year in human history" – was it all "economic collapse", or a year characterised by how "fewer are hungry, fewer are dying of disease"?
Despite a botched privatisation and an awful few years characterised by a shocking succession of fatal accidents, passenger numbers have risen dramatically - doubling in 20 years to over 1.6 billion per year.
"Finishing schools for the children of oligarchs," was how Andrew Halls, head of King's College School in Wimbledon (day fees of more than £20,000 a year), vividly characterised them in a well-publicised Sunday Times interview.
There has been a therapeutic revolution in rheumatology over the past 15 years, characterised by a move away from oral immuno-suppressive drugs toward parenteral targeted biological therapies.
Indeed, the median latency for deaths among workers exposed to asbestos before 1940 was 48 years, whereas a median latency of only 11 years characterised cases exposed not earlier than 1980.
Steve Ormerod, a professor of ecology at Cardiff University's school of biosciences, who has personally studied the 14 streams for 34 years, characterised the loss of freshwater organisms as a "hidden tragedy".
Rebuilt after an earthquake in 1963 wiped out most of the city, Skopje, the capital of the ex-Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, was for years characterised by ugly concrete blocks and strange empty spaces.
