Delay/sleep/wait in an iPhone SDK app?

I'm trying to get some numbers to count up on the screen of my iPhone, but I can't see any way of delaying the app.
I have a for loop that changes the figures on-screen from one value to another by individual increments, but when I run it, you only see the final figure because it runs so fast.
Is there a way of adding a delay in the for loop so that the numbers visibly change? I'd like to see 0 change to 1 change to 2 change to 3 etc. instead of, erm, just 3.
I thought of putting a second for loop in that counted up to, say, a million, but that's too fudgey for me. I'm sure there's a delay function in the iPhone SDK...

You can also do eg. [NSThread sleepForTimeInterval:5.0] to sleep for 5 seconds..

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hi
my apple id has been disable,
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