The phrase "a year of practicing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a duration of time spent engaged in the act of practicing a skill or activity.
Example: "After a year of practicing, she finally felt confident enough to perform in front of an audience."
Alternatives: "one year of practice" or "a year spent practicing".
After less than a year of practice in St . Louis Mo., he moved to Boston, where he maintained an active and prosperous practice until his appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States in 1916.
Perhaps the panel's doctors felt that having lost a year of practice and having his name besmirched was punishment enough for a doctor who, whatever his shortcomings, was not guilty in their opinion of the more serious charges.
After a year of practice, however, I realised that if service users thought my clothes were flirtatious, I would always have to overcome that barrier before initiating a successful professional relationship.
"I thought to myself, 'I can't do that.' " But after a year of practice, Firefighter Walsh was good enough to be given his busby, his red tunic, and his kilt, with its tartan of blue for firefighters, white for officers, green for the Irish, and black for firefighters who had died in the line of duty.
For Procini, it took about three months of training, about an hour per week, and a year of practice on top of that, but she said she is much more confident about her voice now.
"There were some guys on the sideline this year that have a year of practice and some game time under their belts, and they can come in and try to get one of those spots," he said.
He travelled through the Middle East and France in his youth, and after some medical training and a year of practice in his native Aleppo, during which he wrote several works, he enrolled in a medical school in Paris; yet, declining health and growing blindness forced him to return to Aleppo, where he produced more literary works until his early death.
"After three-and-a-half years of practicing every area of the law, I found that family law was the one that interested me the most, so when I left the military I went directly into that field," he says.
In 1985, after a few years of practicing law at a top-tier firm, now known as Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, he started the investment firm that would become Gabriel Capital Group.
