"There's not previously been anything of this size or scale," she said.
A tiny country with a population of just five million had never previously produced anything resembling a decent team.
"There's not previously been anything of this size or scale," she told the Guardian last month.
In many decades in politics, they have never previously done anything which might be described as slightly dramatic, never mind wild.
There has never previously been anything remotely on the same scale as Islamic State in terms of financial resources, territory and sophistication.
And there has never previously been anything remotely on the same scale as IS in terms of financial resources, number of fighters, territory controlled, sophistication in its use of media and ability to radicalise young Muslims in the West.
When offering his support for Lazio last month, Fabio Capello compared them to Osvaldo Bagnoli's Scudetto-winning Hellas Verona side of 1984-85, a provincial team who had never previously won anything bigger than Serie B. Many considered the comparison too generous, since Verona had at least finished sixth the year before.
"If the two T20 Internationals played at the venue previously are anything to go by, the conditions do not favour batting, especially when chasing," Hilal Suhaib told BBC Sinhala service.
Previously - Anything You'd Like to Confess Before the End of the World?
Surrounded by his lawyer and the entire UT chapter of Pi Kaps, Xander denied previously knowing anything about butt chugging, castigated the institutions accusing him of the act, promised retribution against the media outlets so fascinated with his story, and, through his lawyer, made it very clear that "he is a straight man and he thinks the idea... of butt chugging is absolutely repulsive".
As such, if you introduce an innovative teaching strategy into your classroom, it is likely that there are students in your course who have not previously experienced anything like this before.
