"Long exile" refers to a prolonged period of being separated from one's homeland or being away from a place that is familiar or comfortable to them. Full definition
An experienced squad, including Virgil van Dijk, finding his way back after long exile, should have enough to pull clear of too much danger. (espnfc.com)
Her return to Iran during the»70s (later marred by the Islamic Revolution which led to a decade long exile back in New York) introduced her unparalleled potential of mosaic mirrors to imbue movement and transparency into her geometric forms with movement and transparency. (brooklynrail.org)
You don't have to strain to see the connection between, say, the prayers of parents desperate to prevent their son from being offered as a sacrifice to placate a demon and Abraham's reluctant sacrifice of Isaac, or to connect ActRaiser's people led astray by false prophets with the challenges Moses faced in leading the Israelites through their decades - long exile in the wilderness. (waypoint.vice.com)