Example sentences of "for the first [noun sg] on may " in BNC.
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| 1 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 2 | Hungary 's Országgyülés ( National Assembly ) , elected in March and April [ see pp. 37325-26 ; 37380 ] , met for the first time on May 2-3 . |
| 3 | The Chief of Staff of the Air Force , Vice-Marshal Momtazuddin Ahmed , confirmed publicly for the first time on May 10 the claim made eight days earlier by the head of the opposition Awami League Sheikh Hasina Wajed that there had been extensive damage to the country 's small fleet of aircraft . |
| 4 | President George Bush , responding formally for the first time on May 3 to a growing controversy , rejected as " sickening " the allegation that he had participated in a secret Paris meeting with Iranian officials in 1980 in order to reap electoral advantage by delaying the release of 52 US hostages held in Iran . |
| 5 | Western Samoa 's new Fono ( unicameral legislature ) assembled for the first time on May 7 , following the country 's first general election under universal suffrage on April 5 . |