Example sentences for: backlog

How can you use “backlog” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Improvements included increased funding for nursing home surveyors, more prompt investigation of complaints alleging serious harm to residents, more immediate enforcement actions for homes with repeated serious problems, a reorganization of HCFA's regional staff to improve consistency in oversight, and increased funding for administrative law judges to reduce the backlog of appealed enforcement actions.

  • It shows the number of new problems reported and the number of problems closed in order to show a trend over time and to show any backlog that may be developing.

  • VBA, for example, has a large, and growing, backlog of compensation and pension claims.

  • The paperwork was so intense that GAO faced a backlog of 35 million unaudited vouchers in 1945 and had to spend several years catching up on work.

  • It lacked sufficient translators proficient in Arabic and other key languages, resulting in a significant backlog of untranslated intercepts.


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