Lecturer in Australia - response to selection criteria
It depends on the nature of the selection criteria. A criterion like


  PhD from an accredited institution


requires only a paragraph, but


  Research agenda with high probability of publications in leading journals


may require a whole section.

You see a similar thing with NSF research proposals; one question is (paraphrasing)


  "what is the grant number of your most recent support"


and another is


  "describe the research to be undertaken".