1.   Eager crowds gathered outside polling stations before dawn, long before they opened.

2.   Gathering in the early-hour heat, the vessels slipped like brigands past the shores of Gravesend, gliding slowly through the mist toward eager crowds.

3.   In Boston, Chicago and New York, the horse has attracted thick crowds eager not necessarily to bet, but to see Cigar run.

4.   Stopping off in Herndon, Va., on Monday before his departure for Russia, Clinton met a friendly crowd eager to rally behind ideas for better schools.

5.   The mayor is clearly facing a rough crowd eager to maintain its economic stranglehold.

6.   There are several five-a-side soccer pitches, floodlighted, with fierce competition taking place and eager crowds.

7.   This was the lead marathon car, the drum major announcing to an eager crowd along the New York City Marathon route that the runners were coming.

8.   While an eager crowd waited for Kasangi to arrive at his shop in his late-model Mercedes one recent morning, a passer-by quizzed a foreigner.

9.   Eager crowds greet him in every village.

10.   He is greeted by eager crowds in every village.