The phrase "a year of engaging" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a year characterized by active participation or involvement in various activities or events.
Example: "After a year of engaging with the community, we have seen significant improvements in local engagement and support."
Alternatives: "a year of involvement" or "a year of participation".
Chaired by Robin Kirk, faculty co-chair of the Duke Human Rights Center, and Charmaine McKissick-Melton, associate professor of mass communications at North Carolina Central University, the committee worked over the course of a year to engage the Durham community in a dialogue about the future of the monument.
According to the BBC, pilot Dale Zelko and Zoltan Dani, the former commander of a Yugoslav anti-aircraft rocket unit, met face-to-face in Dani's kitchen in Serbia after years of engaging in an unlikely correspondence.
After a year of watching adults engage in devastating recklessness in the financial markets and depressing fecklessness in the global climate talks, it's refreshing to know that the world keeps minting idealistic young people who are not waiting for governments to act, but are starting their own projects and driving innovation.
WHAT DOES it mean when the leader of a huge nation announces that it will not engage in destructive behavior — after years of engaging in it?
"In all of my years of engaging with the Met, I have yet to witness such a shoddy investigation," he said.
After 40 years of engaging established artists and nurturing emerging ones — and in the process building a cultural institution in Dutchess County with national reach — the club's owner, Phil Ciganer, is at a crossroads.
After all, men have many more years of engaging in cooperative team sports than we do prior to entering the workplace.
In all my years of engaging with the opposite sex, the only people I have ever truly loved or cared about I've known socially first and usually have met in similar environs, like raves, after-jams or house parties.
After many years of engaging in impassioned discussion and debate about Israel-Palestine with Jews and non-Jews alike, I recognize how hard it can be to listen -- to really listen -- to the opinions of people with whom I disagree.
