Sentences with phrase «hunting for a needle in a haystack»

«There are only 1000 tiny cells in 1 cubic centimetre of sediment, so finding just one is literally like hunting for a needle in a haystack
It's like hunting for a needle in a haystack.
Once you signed off on your masterpiece, you threw yourself headlong into research on agents and publishers, on the hunt for that needle in the haystack.

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Since mass production is the eventual goal, researchers had to find ways to deal with misaligned and / or metallic CNTs without having to hunt for them like needles in a haystack.
Determining your marital status if you don't know where your spouse is, and if you can't ask her, is a little like hunting for the needle in the proverbial haystack.
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