Sentence examples for of finding a needle from inspiring English sources

"It was the equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack, that report," Detective Heiser said.

They are masters of finding a needle in a haystack yet no one knows who they are.

Instead of finding a needle in the haystack, they are making more hay.Still, as analytical techniques become more widespread, business decisions will increasingly be made, or at least corroborated, on the basis of computer algorithms rather than individual hunches.

Drug discovery is often described using the metaphor of finding a needle in a haystack.

To complicate the big data analytics problem (which is akin to the problem of finding a needle in the haystack), the data quickly becomes out of date due to a rapidly and dynamically changing environment (and thus our problem becomes more difficult: the needle in the haystack has to be found in real-time).

I mean, the notion of finding a needle in the haystack hadn't occurred to anybody at the time... No, no, no.

One physicist I spoke to compared the computational challenge of distinguishing a Higgs to finding a needle not in one haystack but in ten.

But the fate of two remaining brothers and a sister was a mystery she likens to "finding a needle at the bottom of the sea".

It's kind of like finding a needle in a haystack".

"It's sort of like finding a needle in a haystack," said Novak.

Jones gives Awesome a list of impossible tasks — finding a needle in a haystack, locating the lost chord — he must complete in order to win her respect.