More than 570,000 people have applied for a place at university so far this year.

In Chicago last year, 30,000 people applied for 600 police jobs.

In 2009, 1990 people applied for 432 places at the college.

Both black and white people have applied the term to themselves.

She was told that more than 3,000 people had applied for the jobs.

Almost 8,000 people applied to the program this time, up from 2,300 last year.

People apply, only to drop out when they learn how much is expected of them.

Well over one million people have applied and many more will do so in the remaining two months of the program.

Last year, 45,365 people applied to American medical schools, a record, and almost double the number eight years ago.

As a rule, only people who couldn't find other jobs applied here.