The phrase "a year examining" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a duration of time spent analyzing or studying something in detail.
Example: "After a year examining the effects of climate change, the researchers published their findings."
Alternatives: "a year studying" or "a year investigating".
Along with Thomas Rid at King's College London, I spent a year examining what goes into attribution.
Investigators spent a year examining official planning studies and estimates for the project and interviewing people associated with it.
The School of Integrative Plant Science was conceived by a group of faculty members who spent a year examining the current configuration of the plant sciences.
MEXICO CITY — It has been a tumultuous final week for the five foreign legal and human rights experts who have spent more than a year examining the case of 43 missing college students.
Officials in Congress said they expected a select panel to spend more than a year examining every governmental function that should have prevented the attacks, from intelligence agencies to visa authorities.
It allowed him to study ancient maritime commerce and spend a year examining the site of every important ancient harbor on the European coast of the Mediterranean and most of those on the coasts of Asia and Africa.
At least once a year examine your credit report for credit card or loan applications, changes of address and unwarranted notices of delinquency.
Instead she spent an entire year examining her interests, talents and values, ultimately deciding to abandon the CFO track and start her own financial planning business.
Blair is set to launch an organisation in the new year examining how the centre left has been weakened as a political force internationally.
The ATSB spent two and a half years examining Qantas Flight 32.
I once rotated in a lab whose principal investigator has spent more than 50 years examining a single protein in the pathway that allows bacteria to metabolize a sugar called arabinose.
