The phrase "around a year of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when estimating a duration of approximately one year in relation to an event or experience.
Example: "I have been working on this project for around a year of my life."
Alternatives: "about a year of" or "approximately a year of".
Starting at around a year of age, 10 months to a year of age, you see a very different pattern.
Miller, who will also perform 360 hours of community service as part of his sentence, is expected to serve around a year of jail time.
Keene returned to Columbia after the war to study with Tsunoda, earning an M.A. in 1947 and a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and cultures in 1949 (sandwiched around a year of graduate study at Harvard).
After around a year of working for Mr Bercow, Mr Sinclair was given a "compulsory early retirement" by Commons authorities.
The product runs on two AA batteries (getting around a year of use, according to the company) or can be wired directly into the house's electrical system.
Gilbert finished the engine – which he later named "Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion" (SCUMM) – after around a year of development.
Each costs around £10,000 a year, of which about half comes from public funds and the rest from charitable donations.
Morocco exports around $3m£2.3m3m) a year of sand.
A law passed in September will dedicate around $40m a year of revenues from the Itaipú dam, which Paraguay shares with Brazil, to promoting information technology in schools.
The peculiar behavior of around 2003 (a year of exceptionally high geomagnetic activity) at the observatories MMB, KAK, PHU, KOU, HUA and HER is an indication of this.
Finance and insurance generates a trade surplus of around £40bn a year from a workforce of just over a million.
