Sentence examples for backlog of letters from inspiring English sources

The union has been a give a legal opinion by John Hendy QC arguing that the use of 30,000 agency staff to handle the backlog of letters caused by the strike is unlawful and warrants a high court injunction.

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) says there is a backlog of letters unanswered and the public are "tearing their hair out" trying to get through on the phone, with the 281 frontline offices offering help and advice now closed.

They found that it had too few clinical staff to look after its 8,000 patients properly, appointments were being cancelled or rearranged when a GP was off sick and that details in a backlog of letters from hospitals and out of hours services had not been added to patients' record, potentially prejudicing their care.

The beefed-up staff has allowed the committee to clear up a nearly two-year backlog of "advice letters" to members of Congress and their staffs seeking clarity on whether a certain practice might violate the rules.

By September it was estimated that there was a backlog of 20 million undelivered letters.

The F.D.A., which in recent years has been cracking down on a decades-old backlog of unapproved drugs, sent warning letters last week to two drug makers ordering them to stop marketing unapproved nitroglycerin tablets.

And letters, lots of letters.

At its peak, there was a backlog of more than 100,000 items of post, including 14,800 unopened recorded delivery letters and 13,600 unopened first and second class letters containing crucial information and documents about cases.

In the same letter, meantime, Varoufakis conceded that while the backlog of tax arrears had amassed to $82.4 billion since the start of the crisis in late 2009, only $8.6 billion seemed recoverable.

In the letter, leaked to the Financial Times, Varoufakis said the backlog of tax arrears in Greece stood at €76bn (£55but, buthatat only €8bn of this was probably recoverable.

Once the letter was written, it apparently got caught in a backlog of mail to be sent to employees, including W-2 income tax forms.