The phrase "a year to answer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the time taken to respond to a question, request, or situation, often implying that the response is delayed or takes considerable time.
Example: "After much deliberation, it took me a year to answer the question of whether I should change careers."
Alternatives: "a year to respond" or "a year to reply".
Washington's law gave state officials only a year to answer difficult questions: Who could grow legal pot?
By Patrick Radden Keefe Washington's law gave state officials only a year to answer difficult questions: Who could grow legal pot?
Data analysis in Alzheimer's disease research, such as searching for stalls, is a time-consuming task that can cause a single research question to take up to a year to answer in the lab.
"It's like, how do you count the number of jelly beans in the jar?" said Tim Tompkins, president of the Times Square Alliance, which spends up to $100,000 a year to answer this question.
It will take well over a year to answer.
The BBC found the authority has taken more than a year to answer five requests, which should have been dealt with in 20 working days.
Peer mentoring is a one-to-one service whereby a second- or third-year student pairs up with a first year to answer difficult course and pastoral questions.
This is a question that often takes a few months to a few years to answer, depending on the student.
The time course of some conditions, particularly developmental or degenerative, suggests a need to observe patients (or therapies) for years to answer a specific question related to neuroplasticity.
British neuroscientist Adrian Owen, for instance, used fMRI to help a man believed to have been in a vegetative state for five years to answer "yes" and "no" questions by interpreting his brain activity.
The rules are quite complex, the landscape of the referendum has completely fantastical contours and voters in generations to come will wonder what on earth we were thinking, ceding the entire business of government for half a year to the answering of one stupid question: it's possible in this topsy-turvy world that the president of the United States does have the casting vote.
