growing backlog
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgrowingandbacklog
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growing
adjective
uk/ˈɡrəʊ.ɪŋ/us/ˈɡroʊ.ɪŋ/
increasing in size ...
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backlog
noun[C usually singular]
uk/ˈbæk.lɒɡ/us/ˈbæk.lɑːɡ/
a large number of things that you should have done before and must ...
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(Definition ofgrowingandbacklogfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There is still agrowingbacklogof appeals, partly because of the speed with which existing claims are being dealt with.
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As for the second target, we have been successful in steadily increasing the number of cases resolved, but there is still agrowingbacklog.
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What plans has she to tackle thatgrowingbacklog?
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He described those matters as agrowingbacklog.
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We needed to deal with thegrowingbacklogof people waiting for an asylum decision.
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The city council has said that it has agrowingbacklogand inadequate funds.
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The simple answer is that the board asked us not to, because it would have seriously disrupted its work in dealing with the evergrowingbacklogof cases.
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From 4,000 in 1988, the figure, as we have heard, is approaching the 1991 peak of 45,000, and there is agrowingbacklogof 66,000 or more.
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I have taken some trouble to find out: other big libraries are in the same critical difficulty, unable to cope with theirgrowingbacklogof major repairs.
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We have restrictions on capital expenditure in education which in some ways are much tougher than the restrictions on revenue expenditure, and there is agrowingbacklogof repairs.
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The legal system is sufficient to conduct secure commercial dealings, although a serious andgrowingbacklogof cases prevents timely trials.
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