Sentence examples for facing a backlog from inspiring English sources

However, those two centers could not accommodate the steady stream of new arrivals and Australia is now facing a backlog of some 20,000 people awaiting processing.

U.S. immigration courts are facing a backlog of half a million cases, with only a limited number of judges available to hear them and issue rulings.

U.S. immigration courts are facing a backlog of over half a million cases and each one, on average, takes almost two years to close.

Mr. Boyd said he was very busy these days, like many other drillers, facing a backlog of weeks of work from Lake Placid to Brooklyn.

The number of spots at those two centers, however, is not nearly adequate to hold the new arrivals, and Australia is now facing a backlog of more than 20,000 people awaiting processing, with more arriving almost daily.

Malthouse, who subsequently took on the new city hall role of police and crime commissioner, told Lord Justice Leveson on Thursday that at the time he made that comment Scotland Yard was facing a backlog of 400 rape cases following botched police investigations involving two serial rapists.

The country's 12,000 or so judges face a backlog of 20 million cases.

At the end of 2011, it faced a backlog of around 150,000 - albeit mostly inadmissible - claims.

This means that small proposals get held up indefinitely, as agencies face a backlog of submissions.

The Valuation Office Agency faces a backlog of tens of thousands of business rates appeals.

School operators say the immigration service faces a backlog of up to a year in notifying them of arriving students.