The phrase "a year to compile" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the time required to gather or assemble information, data, or materials for a project or report.
Example: "The research team spent a year to compile the comprehensive report on climate change."
Alternatives: "a year to gather" or "a year to assemble".
The top 100 took the broadly-based Triangle Publishing group a year to compile as a response to similar straight lists.
The great snapshot of 11th-century England (and bits of Wales) took just a year to compile; at times I feared accessing the site would take as long.
It took Farmer over a year to compile the pay information and, he adds: "That was with it being a bit easier for me as I'd had previous experience working on remuneration reports in industry.
In this case, the police and prosecutors have had nearly a year to compile evidence and are likely to contest vigorously any effort to get the charges thrown out.
The inaugural list took a year to compile.
The Successful Futures report has taken nearly a year to compile and Prof Donaldson said he had received a "clear and consistent" message after taking evidence from more than 700 people, from pupils and parents to teachers and business.
This book took 27 years to live and then a full year to compile.
It is, therefore, important for you to work with your ST Advisor in the Spring of your Junior year to compile an initial reading list.
The huge phonetic databases that sit beneath its speech engines would take a competitor many years to compile.
The book is written by "The Silver Spoon" kitchen, a group of Italian chefs who have worked for years to compile a bible of authentic Italian cooking.
Note that if you use the native Ultrix compiler on a DECstation you are likely to lose if you pass no flags to cc; md4.c takes an estimated 3,469 billion years to compile if you provide neither the '-g' flag nor the '-O' flag to 'cc'cc
