This period in team history is often referred to as "the wilderness years".

Still the first half of the 1990s is regarded even by the Heep fans as "the wilderness years".

I was a member of the Labour party throughout many of those wilderness years.

The 250-strong technical team hadn't been idle during the wilderness years.

Thanks to me wilderness years, nobody can play the idjit better.

Both musicians would later refer to this period as the "wilderness years."

And throughout the four wilderness years he failed to kiss a single woman on the mouth.

He has been friends with members of Snow Patrol since 1995, during their "wilderness years".

He was at the low point in his career, in a period known as "the wilderness years".

Football supporters in the city often referred (and still do refer) to the period as the "wilderness years".