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    Use "backlog" in a sentence

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    1. By ten I have cleared the backlog and am free to start typing up my notes on Bunty


    2. No doubt there are bad apples but how incompetent is the SAPS if the jails are 400% full? And the criminal courts have two years in backlog cases? With such figures why change the formula with foreign “advisers”


    3. To check all those millions of tons of cargo sufficiently well to find it, the Customs Service would have to multiply its force by a thousand, and even so, there would be such a backlog as each container was unpacked and checked into its far reaches, machinery opened and internal voids inspected, liquid and grain cargos filtered, that commerce in Southern Texas would grind to a virtual halt


    4. capacity and there was a backlog of several months


    5. Personally, besides being inundated by the 11-month backlog of


    6. It was to be rebuilt, he said, and after the immense backlog was taken care of I could probably apply to go back in eight to ten years or so


    7. As a newcomer, without a waiting list, I was assigned backlog cases to be placed on my operating room list


    8. In 2012, the US Department of Veterans Affairs had approved disability claims for 750,000 but still had up to two years of backlog to process disability claims in 2013


    9. that you could accumulate a backlog of savings to insure future security


    10. When Charlie Evans sprained his wrist, and ended up with a backlog of

    11. Dean Wilson was being pressed by management to keep to the testing schedule; the backlog he had created had been noticed


    12. then, if the market is then flooded with a backlog of IPO candidates, the chances


    13. Trains were running again, it seemed, and the crowd was slowly shuffling its way forward as the backlog was cleared, but Stan knew it could be ages before he actually got on a train


    14. This covered several years backlog, and


    15. “Pro bono surgery is an impacted backlog


    16. ding on a credit report, hoping that the backlog of disputes will


    17. The reason for the closure, that it was ordered so that brokers could clear the backlog of paper transactions, was generally disbelieved and a volley of accusations were hurled at the Stock Exchange Board and the administration which had quickly supported the decision


    18. He was swamped by the backlog of patients from his


    19. There was a postal strike in the whole of Greece that had left a backlog of many undelivered items


    20. There was quite a backlog of post, and The Chief Of Police upon returning to his office, began to shift through the post

    21. The job backlog was building up in Systems Programming, Fred Hart noted as he looked over the list of new queries, tasks and projects that had arrived last week


    22. The three software package evaluations Lester had started last week hadn't made a dent in the backlog, however, and he handed the one he'd barely started back to Fred for re-allocation


    23. In the morning, I made my rounds and then in the office was busy checking a backlog of problems that had accumulated


    24. What is an entire nation of owners going to do if suddenly zero rent checks show up one month? Send out 200 million eviction notices? Jail 200 million non-paying renters? Prosecute 200 million cases for nonpayment of rent? Which cases will be tried first? The entire backlog would take thousands of years to process


    25. The backlog of lack of sleep and the food in my stomach pushed me into a subconscious state of mind where I was half sleeping


    26. Many credit rating score improvement organizations (and even some individuals) will try to argument every damage on a credit rating file, hoping that the backlog of conflicts will cause the credit score agency to instantly eliminate the harmful products from the review (the credit rating agency is lawfully required to eliminate questioned products it has not examined within 30 days)


    27. Once I set up the solar panels, I fired up the oxygenator and let it work through the backlog of CO2 that the regulator had stored up


    28. Pocock now had a backlog of eight orders for eight-man shells, including requests from some of the most elite rowing programs in the country: Navy, Syracuse, Princeton, and Pennsylvania


    29. But there’s a backlog these days


    30. Dizzy with relief, I start erasing the enormous backlog of error messages

    31. An important number for infrastructure companies is the backlog, which stood at $9


    32. Even though the backlog at Fluor is greater than AECOM, sitting at $29


    33. Because cheap pork competes with beef, particularly the expensive cuts, the growing backlog also put downward pressure on beef prices


    34. Inventory included equipment held for firm wagering service contracts that would later be transferred to property and equipment-that did not make much sense because inventory was bigger than backlog


    1. answer, but all he had to say was ―Get back to work, we‘re backlogged with shipments as it is!‖


    1. The Scrum project has different backlogs created and maintained to facilitate results


    2. Traders who are truly committed to understanding how markets work maintain large backlogs of trading ideas and often work on many ideas at the same time


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    Synonyms for "backlog"

    backlog reserve stockpile supply quantity stock batch queue

    "backlog" definitions

    an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services)


    the large log at the back of a hearth fire


    something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose


    accumulate and create a backlog