Many had not found their passion or what they were uniquely talented at doing.
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Pupils throughout South Africa were made to sit mock exams, which many had not done in the past.
Many had not had time to complete the process, the official line goes, and a further 110 are expected to become academies in the coming months.
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They said many people were severely injured and many had not eaten for days while drifting on the river waiting for opportunities to try to get into Bangladesh.
One note of caution: The poll was conducted on December 30 and January 1, when most Americans were still in the holiday spirit and many had not returned to work.
Following the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on 11 March a number of photographers who headed to the region to record the aftermath found devastation on a scale many had not seen before.
Three months ago, Microsoft, which had promised to offer a "choice screen" from which users could pick the browser they preferred, was upbraided by the EU's competition commissioner, who said many users had not been able to view a choice of screen between February 2009 and July 2012.
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It said residents who normally had collections on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays had not had collections this week, and many residents who normally had a Friday collection may not have had their recycling or refuse collected.
Mr Neath added that because palm oil had so many uses, not even Unilever had much leverage.
Instead, the decision was met with criticism in the US. Many argued he had not had any impact worthy of the award.
However, analysts said many mortgage lenders had not passed on the lower borrowing costs, while consumers feared that rates may climb again.
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The 14-week consultation finished on Tuesday, but Unison spokesman Gary Garner said many people had still not had a chance to express their opinions.
In his first meeting as governor, Mr Kuroda has put the Bank of Japan on a path that many before him had not dared, or chosen, to take.
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The McCain campaign, which has been complaining about news coverage of the presidential race all summer, has spent the past few days pushing back on blogosphere rumors, including the release of a blizzard of memos and documents, many of which had not been reported in mainstream media outlets.
By agreeing with EU leaders in February to a cut of 3.3%, the PM had delivered "what many people had told us was not possible", the Lib Dem leader said.
So far on this tour we have not had too many shambolic days but we were not very good here and we have to get performances like this out of our system.
The Beatles had it, Muhammad Ali had it, but not many other people have had it.
Years ago I was interviewing a woman who had not worked in many years because she had been focused on raising her children.
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The spokesman also said that the company's telephone services were not activated in time, so many people calling for information had not been able to get through.
Tonight we had opportunities, not very many, but we had a few.
You know, in the beginning we had trouble recruiting people because many people would not take jobs that had such a bad reputation.
Mr Olens said that the laws, which had not been overhauled in many years, had grown convoluted and ambiguous.
If they had, many if not all of the smaller developing countries would probably have followed them.
However, this deadline was extended by one year after it became clear that many key constitutional issues had not been resolved.
Labour AM Jenny Rathbone raised her concern that the good practice amongst many hospitals in Wales had not been given enough attention.
But when he looked at Poland some years after its freedom was won, he wondered if many of his kinsman had not chosen a kind of existential enslavement to Western materialism.
About 250 people had watched the show but the theatre did not know how many had bought the album.
The employment created tended to be far less skilled than had been anticipated and many were not "new" jobs as they were with existing companies who had moved from just up the road to take advantage of the lower costs in enterprise zones.
Some colonies had not been counted for decades and many more had never been surveyed at all, the researchers said.
Mrs Ingram said she had admitted that many of the phone calls she had made were not heard by her husband.
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