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Example sentences for: backlog

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

The Journal quotes a government report stating that the current backlog of them numbers nearly 70,000.
The California state bar, now has, says the paper, a backlog of 6,556 unresolved complaints against attorneys.
But Singer, who died in 1991, wrote so much and so well in his long career that it would be wrong to conclude that his publishers are cynically raking their way through a justly neglected backlog.
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.
According to the Branch Chief, because the team received cross-training, it was able to help another division reduce its backlog of FERS cases.