The phrase "backlog by" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used in business or financial contexts to refer to a backlog of work, tasks, or orders that have accumulated over time. Example: "The company's production was delayed due to a backlog of orders caused by the recent surge in demand."
The Senate bill would reduce the rape-kit backlog by redirecting financing toward this problem.
Mr. Yates reiterated the commitment to cut the backlog by September 2006.
His office also has an initiative under way to eliminate the application backlog by 2012 by hiring 50 more reviewers.
She said the airline expected to clear up the backlog by Saturday, "barring any more weather problems".
A similar initiative in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, cut the trial backlog by more than half in 2013.
Last week, Mr. Bloomberg promised to eliminate the backlog by spending $40 million to add 300 workers to the current repair work force of 2,000.
An Atos spokeswoman said the French company was assessing more people than its contractual agreement stipulated and was reducing the backlog month-by-month.
He said he would seek to relieve backlogs by speeding up green cards for immigrants already in the legal line, not by creating special pathways for illegal immigrants.
Laura Lichter, the president-elect of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, who practices in Denver, said ICE could have done far more to reduce backlogs by rapidly completing those strong cases.
The new third set of locks will help eliminate some of those backlogs, by adding perhaps 15 passages to the daily total.
He urged ministers not to try to deal with backlogs by redeploying staff from other areas and offices, risking causing crises elsewhere a few months later.
