English example sentences with "backlog"

Thanks to you, the backlog of tedious work has been completed.

If the government is serious about making inroads into the backlog of asylum applications, they should allocate additional funding.

The backlog of ships trying to pass through the Suez Canal could take about four days to work through, following nearly a week in which the vital waterway was blocked by a massive container ship.

I've a lot of backlog of work.