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The phrase "years missing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that there are gaps or omissions in a timeline or record, particularly regarding specific years that are unaccounted for. Example: "The historical document had several years missing, making it difficult to piece together the complete timeline of events."
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His mother returns to Calcutta with an immigrant's lament: she has spent the past 25 years missing India and will spend the next 25 missing America.There are still good reasons for immigrants to put themselves through all this.
She was given to drunkenness and drug use during her early years, missing interviews and occasionally lashing out physically at members of the press.
(The Washington Post) After 19 years missing in action, Quentin Tarantino's 1964 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu convertible was finally found by the police.
Here they are, for the 11th time in the last 12 years, missing only in 1994 when there was nothing to miss because there were no playoffs.
Diagnosis takes an average of four more years, missing the window of opportunity during which the autistic brain is capable of learning "normal" patterns, leading to an ability to function in society.
The company showed its first revenue decline in 13 years, missing analyst expectations by a mile.
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Seventeen long years, missed and loved.
Fifteen long years, missed and loved.
Endless targets have been set over those years, missed, and duly forgotten or rewritten.
Mr. Özdemir said it was important to acknowledge that Germany for years missed the chance of integrating the guest workers.
(2) The U.S. has never, in its 234 years, missed a payment on its debt.
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