Dependent on your exact situation (country of licence, location etc), if you find a third-country ATO with an EASA approval, they will probably have examiners with an FCL 1000.(c) approval who can do EASA checks (and on non-EASA aircraft). I know because we have done exactly that in our ATO.
So you can more than reset the clock. If you're canny about it you can renew both your third country and EASA IR at once.