Still, fans would rather see their teams play in some faraway place than not at all.

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These conversations added a cultural dimension to a trip that was mostly about experiencing a faraway place.

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Little Saigon may have the flavor of a faraway place, but its banking is right here at home.

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"It was kind of shocking because you get to a very faraway place emotionally and spiritually, " he said.

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Along with nearly 1.5 million Americans who have served in Iraq, they fought in a faraway place for people they never knew.

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Usually, when Stafford and his team prepare the grounds for burial, it is for someone who has died in a faraway place.

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The fabled city, whose names is sometimes used in the West as a synonym for a faraway place, was at the center of trans-Sahara trade in earlier times.

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The school bus is the big yellow kind, exactly the same as the one Liz once rode to elementary school, in that faraway place, that faraway land known as rural Ohio.

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Thinking of moving to a faraway place?

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Wealthy punters can place big bets on events involving ill-paid sportsmen in faraway places.

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