The phrase "a year of deteriorating" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks clarity.
It could be used in a context discussing the decline of a situation or condition over the course of a year, but it needs additional information to be fully understandable.
Example: "After a year of deteriorating conditions, the community finally decided to take action."
Alternatives: "a year of decline" or "a year of worsening".
No grade, award or acceptance letter is worth a year of misery and deteriorating mental health.
At a certain point, banks will be able to overcome more than a year of losses from deteriorating assets with strong revenues and profits from traditional banking activity.
"Exit Ghost" reveals Zuckerman to have Alzheimer's, and the hero of "Everyman," after years of deteriorating health, dies during surgery for a clogged artery.
Many voters were divided over Park's suitability to tackle mounting economic problems, improve welfare for a rapidly aging population and improve relations with North Korea after five years of deteriorating cross-border ties under the current hardline president, Lee Myung-bak.
The J. C. Penney Company is closing its Units apparel stores after Christmas, citing five years of deteriorating sales and profits.
It took several years of deteriorating health -- and changes in her face as her skin began to tighten and harden -- before doctors could definitively diagnose her condition.
But the luckless sales team will now have to persuade foreigners to buy when a third of the country's reactors are being idled well short of their 40-year lifespan and after years of deteriorating performance.
The only exception was the Iranian foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, who delivered an angry speech far exceeding his allocated five minutes, laying the blame for years of deteriorating security and civilian causalities on international forces in Afghanistan.
Her biggest foreign policy challenge will be to end five years of deteriorating ties with the North under her predecessor and fellow conservative, Lee Myung-band and persuade it to return to negotiations.
He took on the disease with the tenacity of his battles with City Hall and the State's Attorney's Office, but his health deteriorated after a year of treatments.
