In the same vein, Mr. Gbagbo's detractors here charge that his seven-year exile made him more French than African.

Ending his seven-year Republican exile, he announced his Senate candidacy as a Democrat in 1976.

He arrived at the Baseball Ground in Derby's first season back in the First Division after a seven-year exile.

In the evening, the group visited Andrei D. Sakharov, the physicist, who was permitted to return to Moscow in December after a seven-year exile in Gorky for dissident pronouncements.

Jason Isaacs plays Michael Caffee, a lifelong criminal who has just returned home, after a self-imposed seven-year exile when a hit was put on him, hoping to pick up where he left off.

Leicester City finally made it back to the top flight after a seven-year exile and two successive Wembley playoff final defeats.

And the Charlton team, currently lying 11th in Division One, last night vowed to repay the directors and fans for ending the club's seven-year exile.

It was the beginning of a seven-year exile for the Spanish kings.

Out to reinvent itself after a decadelong identity crisis, the nation's oldest equine competition, the 113-year-old National Horse Show, galloped back to Broadway tonight after a seven-year exile at the Meadowlands.

He took them to promotion two years later and the following year, 1987, they won the Second Division title to end a seven-year exile from the First Division.