Sentence examples for a backlog of proposals from inspiring English sources

A party aide described the decision as a routine effort to clear a backlog of proposals.

Mr. Bush argues that the terminals can be protected and that surging demand for gasoline makes it imperative that a backlog of 32 proposals for new terminals be cleared.

Grants staff members at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) who came back to work yesterday after the 16-day government shutdown ended will now need to catch up on a backlog of research proposals and canceled peer-review meetings.

This means that small proposals get held up indefinitely, as agencies face a backlog of submissions.

According to an outline of the Fix America's Schools Today proposal, the nation's roughly 100,000 public schools confront a backlog of deferred maintenance projects that reaches $270 billion, meaning this money could quickly be absorbed and put to use.

A council of mayors and other leaders there was outraged, he said, to learn that one state proposal would send millions to the Massachusetts Turnpike rather than what he considers a backlog of local road and bridge projects.

Or with a backlog of e-mails.

It has a backlog of three thousand ideas.

As a result, there is a backlog of reservations.

A backlog of 12.3 million idle workers remains.

A backlog of unmarried men starts to pile up.