In the address that he made on Saturday - to mark the centenary of the signing of the Ulster Covenant - Mr McCallister said recent shared commemorations, shared events and shared statements gave the impression that the unity train had left the station.

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The good people there tell me the formal payment for my ticket from my credit card company arrived four minutes after my train left the station.

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Yet, after months of hard work, the innovation train had not even left the station, much less reached its destination.

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When the train left Tokyo Station, Tengo took out the paperback that he had brought along.

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To use a phrase connected to another once-ubiquitous part of our daily lives: That train has left the station.

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That train has left the station.

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My view was that the train had already derailed before it left the station, and the challenge was for IRS to get it back on track.

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As the party wound down, the Nudists and I left Paul with his Couchsurfers, and heading back to the subway station to take the L train back to Manhattan, chatting about how strange it would be to have strangers constantly around, treating our apartments like free hostels.

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Last time I visited Legoland at Billund, which is a couple of hours travel from Copenhagen, the train left Copenhagen at a sensible time in the morning, arrived at the station where you have to change to a bus on time.

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