Sentence examples for down the backlog from inspiring English sources

The hope is that in a couple of years time it will have eaten down the backlog".

At a news conference on Monday, housing officials said they hoped to winnow down the backlog to about 100,000 pending orders by the end of the year.

Company officials said a strike this week would have a minimal effect on production and on working down the backlog of recall orders.

It was the paperwork on Friday afternoon that brought him down, the backlog of referrals, and responses to referrals, abstracts for two conferences, letters to colleagues and editors, an unfinished peer review, contributions to management initiatives, and government changes to the structure of the Trust, and yet more revisions to teaching practices.

The agency's new plan to hire at least 150 new appeals judges to whittle down the backlog, which has soared to 755,000 from 311,000 in 2000, will require $100 million more than the president requested this year and still more in the future.

Officials with Bridgestone/Fire stone, which is based in Nashville, said a strike would hardly delay its efforts to work down the backlog.

"The problem is that so many airports were shut down that the backlog was unbelievable.

The latest figures from the National Association of Realtors show that the pace of home sales is falling, prices are down and the backlog of unsold houses gets ever bigger.

At Parliament's insistence, the European Commission is to present a plan to wind down the unpaid bills backlog, which reached €23.4 billion by the end of 2013 and is set to hit €25 billion by the end of 2014, according to the latest Commission forecast.

"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.

"I would expect estimates to come down," she said, "but the backlog is strong, and we could yet see strong results".