Sentence examples for backlog down from inspiring English sources

"If we didn't use charter flights, we wouldn't be able to get the backlog down," said Wes Carrington, a spokesman at the United States Embassy in Brasilia.

"He was able to really develop a culture of working together and a consensus, really getting the backlog down," said Justice Angela M. Mazzarelli, the second-longest tenured judge on the court.

However licences were down 2% to $109.3m versus our $113.8m (consensus $113.2m) with backlog down 7%.

In June alone we reduced our late bill backlog down to 231,000 customers, received 10% fewer complaints and also cut our complaints backlog by 27%.

But the House version of the state budget does not include the financing — and the Senate draft includes only enough to get the backlog down to 1,300 by the end of the 2013 fiscal year.

"We were hoping by raising prices to slow that backlog down a little, but so far the market has been pretty able to absorb the price increases," said Fred Cooper, vice president for finance at Toll Brothers.

Fix legal immigration first, he says — get those backlogs down, get a steady supply of nurses, engineers and M.B.A.'s flowing, and impose strict biometric workplace IDs so that all future hiring is legitimate.

The backlog was down to 5,000 this afternoon, the port said.

Arm's licensing backlog is down more than 20% since the peak and over 50% of licensing booked in the profit and loss account is pulled from backlog.

That backlog is down about 18% from its peak of 611,000 stalled claims in March, according to statistics from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The reconstituted authorities for visas, residency and citizenship are releasing all kinds of statistics showing backlogs down and wait times reduced.