Lord Patten was giving evidence to MPs on the Commons culture, media and sport select committee in the first ever "pre-appointment hearing" for the position.
Needless to say when I got my first ever pre-recorded movie to watch I was really excited and actually I really enjoyed it.
Over 1,000 officers took part in early-hour raids at more than 75 addresses; in what the Met called its biggest ever "pre-planned single arrest operation".
Ten years after it began its first ever pre-trial hearings, when a Congolese warlord was in the dock, the International Criminal Court at The Hague has become part of our mental furniture.
Sotheby's rival Christie's has already announced that it will sell Andrew Lloyd Webber's Picasso Portraitit of Angel Fernandez de Soto, or The Absinthe Drinker – which at £30m-£40m £30m-£40mgiven thasbeenest ever pre-sale estimate for a work auctioned in Europe.
So, as ever, pre-orderer beware.
So I set up bitcoin.chooseyourself.us a month before I released the book and became the first book ever pre-released solely on bitcoin.
The company has previously claimed it's seeing faster than ever pre-sales for a Note device in the U.S. Now its expanded that momentum claim, saying pre-orders for the premium phablet have hit the highest ever velocity for its Note series — and beat the Note 7 pre-orders by about 2.5x over five days, according to a Reuters report.
Fifa has already cashed in on the highest ever pre-Cup profits.
At the 2009 World Championships in August, Bolt eased through the 100 m heats, clocking the fastest ever pre-final performance of 9.89 seconds.
Top-performing clubs include Tottenham Hotspur, who netted the highest-ever pre-tax profit in the division, £80m, helped in part by the world-record £85m transfer of Gareth Bale to Real Madrid in August 2013.
