The phrase "in a recent year" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a specific year that was close to the present moment. For example: "In a recent year, the population of the city increased by 10%."
In a recent year, his great-granddaughter was a sophomore in my college writing course.
There were about 10 Hispanic births in a recent year for each Hispanic death.
The committee points out that 45percentt of second-term freshmen took more than 55 units in a recent year while only 12percentt of sophomores did so.
The number sold here is in the tens of thousands a year, compared with 10 million in a recent year in China.
Most low-income students who have top test scores and grades do not even apply to the nation's best colleges, according to a new analysis of every high school student who took the SAT in a recent year.
Each blood-alcohol analyst in California processes an average of 3,220 cases annually, Justice Kennedy wrote, and the Los Angeles Police Department's 10 toxicologists spent 782 hours at 261 court appearances in a recent year.
In a recent year-long photography project he set out to humanize historical events by showing people left behind.
This was also evidenced in a recent year-end report from Sensor Tower, which found that Netflix's app generated the most revenue of any non-game app during 2017 – a position that Pandora had won for a quarter previously before being beat out for the overall top spot by Netflix.
In a recent year-long study, brimonidine tartrate gel 0.5% applied once daily proved to be both efficacious and safe, regardless of the presence of concomitant therapies.
But the basketball situation has been in a shambles in recent years.
It is the severest earthquake in a recent hundred years.
