The phrase "a year in search" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a period of time dedicated to exploration, investigation, or inquiry, often in a personal or professional context.
Example: "After a year in search of the perfect job, she finally found a position that matched her skills and passions."
Alternatives: "a year of exploration" or "a year of discovery".
Earlier today, Google Trends released "A Year in Search 2015," a comprehensive report from one of the internet's biggest corporations of what the US searched for in 2015.
Gold drives twenty thousand miles a year in search of food.
Anthropologists estimate that only about 7,000 Himba live today much as their ancestors did centuries ago, wearing animal skins, raising cattle and moving as often as 10 times a year in search of water and green grass for their goats and cows.
CLEMENTINE PADDLEFORD was the Nellie Bly of culinary journalism, a go-anywhere, taste-anything, ask-everything kind of reporter who traveled more than 50,000 miles a year in search of stories in a day when very few food editors strayed far from their desks.
After grad school, I moved almost once a year in search of postdocs.
Gourma elephants trek for 300 miles a year in search of food and water — the most unusual migration pattern of any elephants.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Marvel met with more than 70 directors over half a year in its search for a "Black Widow" director.
I earn my living as a signwriter, but spend three or four weeks a year travelling in search of new plants.
Though its rents are still below those of Munich or Hamburg, they have been rising as some 40,000 people a year arrive in search of the capital's excitement and jobs.
He was back in San Francisco, after a year in Mexico documenting his search for mind-altering mushrooms (Timothy Leary has a flickering cameo in the resulting short film).
Yet despite the present barrier, hundreds of thousands of Mexicans ― and Central and South Americans ― make the crossing every year in search of a job and a better future.
