The phrase "a high backlog" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where there is a significant amount of work or tasks that are pending or overdue.
Example: "Due to the recent surge in orders, we currently have a high backlog that we need to address."
Alternatives: "a large backlog" or "an extensive backlog".
"We have a high backlog with overbooking, and it is not difficult to find people to take them up," Mr. Gallois said.
However, more patients progressed to the surgical part of the system, creating a high backlog of referrals waiting for surgery.
The results of the baseline scenario (table 3) showed that a high backlog of patients would accumulate in the different waiting lists, if the same level of resources were kept in a simulated year (at the time of the study a year into the future).
Markit reported that factories saw an increase in new orders, leading to an higher backlog of work and an inc increased in job creation across the sector.
For our results, the partial effect of backlog or number of bidders turns out as hypothesized, too: more bidders in the auction decrease the bid, a higher backlog increases the bid.
More immediately, what is needed are hundreds more immigration judges to deal with a historically high backlog of around 800,000 cases, to determine which should be justifiably regarded as meriting asylum.
NHS trusts are sitting on a record-high backlog of almost £6 billion worth of repairs or replacements that need carrying out, official figures show.
There they can see workers laboring through unmanageably high backlogs of handwritten paper records submitted by the nation's gun dealers.
The good news in the report was that ASEI closed the quarter with the highest backlog in the company's history, $117 million, which was up $54 million sequentially and 54% on the year.
"We ended the quarter with a record high order backlog of $191 billion and we remain confident in our full-year 2011 operating framework," he said in a statement.
PPD's sales climbed 23% to $1.04 billion in 2005 while project backlog recently climbed to a high of $2.2 billion.
