The phrase "a year of challenges" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a year that has presented various difficulties or obstacles, often in a reflective or summarizing context.
Example: "Looking back, 2020 was truly a year of challenges for many, filled with unexpected trials and tribulations."
Alternatives: "a year of difficulties" or "a year of obstacles".
"It will be a complex year, a year of challenges".
It's been a year of challenges – hundreds of names and systems to learn, endless hoops to jump through, a small forest's worth of paperwork and regular university assignments.
For cities around the globe, it's been a year of challenges: worsening air pollution, increasing social divisions, community displacement, housing crises, resource shortages, environmental disasters and street violence – and for some, war and terrorism.
He warned that if the Afghan government did not commit itself to necessary reforms and to battling corruption, the year 2014 - when international troops plan on having finalized their exit strategy - would be "a year of challenges rather than opportunities".
UNICEF education staff look back at a year of challenges and inspiration NEW YORK, USA, 5 January 2012 – UNICEF education staff around the globe share the most inspiring moments they experienced in 2011, events that that reminded them why they chose their professions.
"This entire year for everyone in Dallas is a year of challenge, and I have been telling our young guys that," Smith said.
Along with Jonathan Glazer's abstracted exploration of alien consciousness in "Under the Skin," these films helped set the stage for a year of challenging, original works.
Hezbollah's patrons in Iran appear to have regained control after a year of internal challenges since the disputed June 2009 re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Labor leaders describe it as the starkest threat they have faced in a year of nationwide challenges to diminish their once-formidable power.
The current de facto policy in effect provides government subsidies in the form of tax and Social Security payment waivers to industries employing millions of illegals.Matthias BlumeSan Diego, CaliforniaHow to succeed in AfricaSIR – Tony Blair has no idea of how and why Africa is the way it is ("A year of huge challenges", January 1st).
Though they said that they "expect 2014 to be a year of further challenges".
