They lived here in relative isolation for more than 150 years.

The inhabitants farm sugar cane and mine surrounding salt fields in relative isolation.

For decades, translators used to labor in relative isolation over handwritten translations that were vulnerable to theft, fire, or natural disaster.

Without any familiar faces, long hours are endured in relative isolation and managers who change all the time provide little or no recognition, let alone reward.

For many centuries, the geomorphology of the terrain was responsible for the relative isolation of its populations.