Sentence examples for a backlog of about from inspiring English sources

Greece has a backlog of about 30,000 cases.

He also pledged to eliminate a backlog of about 780 applications by adding staff members.

There is now a backlog of about a million immigration cases.

The State Emergency Service (SES) still had a backlog of about 3,000 requests for assistance to attend.

It was enacted this year to handle a backlog of about 300 families who owed tens of thousands of dollars.

The court has a backlog of about 153,000 pending cases, with a wait of more than two years for some to be heard.

Verizon said it had a backlog of some 78,000 repair orders, about 38,000 of these including people with no service at all and 40,000 with trouble like static on the line.

At a crowded public meeting with Con Ed officials at the Town Hall here, officials of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission cited a backlog of reports about problems at the plant and a lack of preventive maintenance, among other things.

Earnest acknowledged as much Monday, returning to the White House briefing room after a two-week break during Obama's summer vacation to fend off a backlog of questions about which top advisor Obama would prefer to see as the Democratic nominee in 2016.

"We are shipping robots every day and have a backlog of orders of about three months," said Rodney Brooks, Rethink's founder, chairman and chief technology officer.

The building was closed in 1993, because there was already a backlog of maintenance costs of about half a million pounds.