1.   But this was more than the Patriots finding a needle in a haystack.

2.   Finding a financial adviser whose interests are completely aligned with those of the investor is about as easy as finding a needle in a haystack.

3.   Finding a cause may be harder than finding a needle in a field of haystacks.

4.   How, in that electronic haystack, did the government find the needles to use in its landmark antitrust case against the software giant?

5.   Indeed, a direct hurricane strike on Bermuda is akin to finding a needle in a haystack.

6.   Sgt. Bruce Vermaat, who heads the pickpocket detail, said nabbing a pickpocket is like finding a needle in a haystack.

7.   The appropriate authorities can find the needles, he says.

8.   The newspaper quoted a local official as saying that pinpointing the causes of cancer was like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

9.   The older addicts, meanwhile, will inject it with whatever needle they find.

10.   When a vice president wants to check quarterly revenues in a certain region, Ms. Rogers finds the needles in the data haystack.