backlog

Example Sentences

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In an email to those staff members on leave, the department said it still planned to fire them but now wants them to start working through its backlog.

From Salon

That has weighed on Charles River, but our investment team thinks we are now past the peak of regulatory uncertainty, and that customers are starting to build a backlog after reprioritizing their pipelines.

From Barron's

More than 79,600 criminal cases are now caught in the courts backlog in England and Wales, new figures show.

From BBC

In a letter to Sir Keir Starmer, the MPs, largely but not wholly from the left of the party, say the plans are "not a silver bullet" to reducing the backlog in trials.

From BBC

Without more enterprise customers and sustained growth in revenue and backlog, “its business will likely rise and fall with government spending,” the Jefferies analysts wrote.

From Barron's