The phrase "a year to explore" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a period of time dedicated to discovery or investigation, often in a travel or personal growth context.
Example: "After finishing my studies, I decided to take a gap year, a year to explore different cultures and places around the world."
Alternatives: "a year for discovery" or "a year of exploration".
I also dropped out for more than a year to explore alternative careers, but a recession led me back to complete my courses and preliminary orals.
The Secret Place used an unusual narrative rhythm – chapters set on a single day alternating with sections flashing back over a year – to explore the allegiances and deceits of adolescent friendship.
Horwood comments: "That's why improving local media is so important, especially public service broadcast local media… Unlike the snippets of regional news on BBC1 and ITV1, our 'LondonTV' station has committed to broadcast thousands of hours a year to explore London's happenings and issues".
Rich countries are subsidising oil, gas and coal companies by about $88bn£55.4bnbn) a year to explore for new reserves, despite evidence that most fossil fuels must be left in the ground if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change.
It then took me nearly a year to explore other job possibilities in my geographic area.
There are a few places I'd like to revisit and live for 6 months to a year to explore life and get to know friends there better.
They provide an opportunity to learn from a professional neuroscientist over an entire year, to explore important research topics that are not covered in depth in other courses, and to become comfortable reading primary scientific literature and analyzing scientific data.
For first-timers or experienced flower aficionados, this is a great year to explore the hills.
Using the population of people naming a baby each year to explore adoption and abandonment, the researchers were working with a group that continually renews itself.
Near Timbuktu, Mali, Jan . 8 2011 I went to Mali on a group trip for the New Year to explore and to learn while making an odyssey with a woman and her friends who are building a school in Nienebale village.
"I am looking forward to using this first year to explore a few different approaches to studying protein biochemistry," he says.
