The phrase "found the need for" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to talk about discovering a requirement or necessity for something. For example: "We found the need for more training materials within the organization."
She found the need for repetition came partly from the children's accurate realization that they just didn't get it.
It reportedly found the need for greater coordination between communities, government and authorities but also noted deep mistrust as an obstacle to progress.
His Police Department, troubled about whether its famous statistics are valid, has finally found the need for a review by three former prosecutors.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which maintains the George Washington, Bayonne, Goethals and Outerbridge Crossing bridges, found the need for 19 emergency repairs during its most recent inspection of those bridges.
In the US, SAGE (Senior Action in a Gay Environment) found the "need for assisted housing greater than that among the general population due to a higher rate of isolated living".
However, we have never found the need for them.
Only in the industrialized world do we find the need for chairs, couches, benches, and stools.
One of their authoritative colleagues, Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, finds the need for action now obvious.
Such organizations generally find the need for some form of national affiliation, so as to present an agreed front to central governments.
When we can't quite grasp an actual solution we find the need for stronger leadership, as if the system has failed and it's up to an individual to make a difference.
29) concludes with a quotation suggesting that cosmologists find the need for several forms of energy and matter (baryons, dark matter, cosmological energy density) to be "ugly": "A little of this, a little of that".
