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It said about £200m of the required funding would need to be used to tackle a maintenance backlog.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

The combination of an extensive backlog of maintenance, Raac issues and problems with cladding are central to the issues with infrastructure.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Adding to the backlog are prolific requesters who flood the department with complex and time-consuming inquiries, all of which have to undergo several levels of review to avoid the release of private data, they argue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

The cloud platform’s backlog has risen to $578 billion as demand for processing power continues to rise.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

By 1997, the repair backlog for the national parks had reached $6 billion.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

A separate state system for updating registration information wasn’t processing changes for several weeks, leading to more backlogs.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

Fundamental support for those stocks is broadening out, with manufacturing backlogs ramping up across machinery, fabricated metals and other categories, and manufacturing data showing a buildup in orders, strategists said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

The series of radical reforms, including scaling back jury trials, were presented as the best way of turning around record backlogs which, in turn, were exacerbating the prison population crisis.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

He said it is important to reduce visa backlogs and modernize the immigration system to meet the needs of our economy and support employers and legal immigrants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

When it was blazing freely he piled upon it, and in front of the green backlogs, several of the logs of dry wood.

From Troop One of the Labrador by Dillon Wallace

It was backlogged, so they would fly them in-country to wherever they wanted to go.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

The BLS is expected to quickly release the backlogged September jobs report after the government reopens, since it is pegged to data that was collected before the closure began on Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

Pending approval by the House and signing by President Donald Trump, a reopened government would pave the way for a flood of backlogged economic data and the resumption of normal airline operations, among other functions.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025

As part of the layoffs, in San Francisco, the regional branch of the department’s Office for Civil Rights — already backlogged with investigations into school-related discrimination — is closing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2025

If everyone who came before the court for a competency hearing brought out a bunch of irrelevant witnesses and made long speeches, the court calendar would be backlogged for decades.

From Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow

Interviews documented in the police report suggest that a key cause of the backlogging at the lab is a 2009 US Supreme Court decision known as Melendez-Diaz v.

From Nature ● Oct. 10, 2012

But in two fair-sized cities, Portland, Ore., and New Orleans, district attorneys claim that they have been able to get stiffer sentences without backlogging the court docket by cutting down on plea bargaining.

From Time Magazine Archive