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Example sentences for: backlog

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According to the Branch Chief, because the team received cross-training, it was able to help another division reduce its backlog of FERS cases.
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.
Overall, GAO handled a staggering backlog of paperwork as a result of the war: in 1947, GAO reconciled 490 million checks and audited 92,000 accountable officers' accounts, 5 million transportation vouchers, 1.5 million contracts, and 260 million postal money orders.
Besides, most researchers thought cloning humans was impossible--so, for the moment, there's unlikely to be a grant-request backlog.
During the "paperwork crisis " of 1968, the NYSE cut back hours for the first three months of the year so that brokers could handle a massive backlog of unfilled orders.