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"a severe backlog of" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a large accumulation of unfinished tasks or work that needs to be addressed, usually over an extended period of time. For example, "The company had a severe backlog of orders to process before the end of the quarter."
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The new lender, Selfcert.co.uk, launched on 18 January, but has stopped taking new applications until further notice while it works through a "severe backlog" of people who have registered an interest.
But that program continues to be plagued by a severe backlog of applications.
That program has been plagued by a severe backlog of pending applications, which has left about 134,000 people still stranded in limbo.
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Community complaints piled up at the EPA, creating a severe backlog.
We have a collective memory, a backlog of common information".
A severe case of indigestion?
This distinction is made because the first year(s) of treatment rollout may feature uncharacteristically high-mortality rates as a backlog of patients with severe immunosuppression are quickly ushered onto treatment.
As a result, there is a backlog of reservations.
"There's a backlog of several thousand specimens that need to be tested," said Fukuda.
The agency nearly always has a backlog of a hundred homes waiting.
There must be a backlog of a hundred thousand things waiting to be assimilated into Dubai culture.
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