1.   At first no one was interested in the job but now applications are coming in thick and fast.

2.   Most applications came from overseas.

3.   The membership application came before the Council of Ministers in September.

4.   Applications have come in not just from young entrepreneurs but also from well-placed executives at Mitsubishi Electric, Toshiba and Sony.

5.   Applications come and go.

6.   Besides New York, grant applications have come from Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles.

7.   A lot of sales these days are for replacement computers, and no new application has come along that prompts the owners of low-end machines to replace them.

8.   All the incomplete applications came from voters who returned forms sent to registered Republicans by the state party.

9.   But this application comes with an unusually grand potential payoff.

10.   Executives from both programs said that applications were coming in from tanker owners all over the world.