Sentence examples for in the backlog of from inspiring English sources
Hiring in the United States is inching up — but not quickly enough to put much of a dent in the backlog of nearly 12 million unemployed workers left stranded by the recession and its aftermath.
Job creation over the last two years has been steady but too slow to put a major dent in the backlog of unemployed workers, and the February jobs report due out on Friday is expected to be equally mediocre.
The S.& P. 500 rallied in morning trading after the Institute for Supply Management's report on nonmanufacturing businesses showed 1.4percentt growth in new orders and a 2percentt increase in the backlog of orders.
He also pointed out that 10,000 asylum applications had been processed last month, making a slight dent in the backlog of 103,000, and said that "removals of asylum seekers are at record levels".
The report, by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonpartisan group that analyzes data about federal government performance, found that the shortage of judges had contributed to a 19percentt increase in the backlog of cases since 2006 and a 23percentt increase in the time it takes to resolve them.
"And things got worse at the Border Agency too - the select committee report showed a 20% increase in the backlog of asylum cases in three months".
Even if the backlog of Indians in the EB-3 category were half as large, the wait time would still exceed 30 years.
Following a modest increase in applications in 2007, the backlog of new cases (excluding the old "legacy" lump) more than doubled in 12 months, to nearly 9,000 by last summer.
A1 NEW YORK/REGION B1-9 The Wait for Citizenship Is Long in New York The backlog of pending citizenship cases in New York exceeds 100,000, more than in any other federal district in the country.
The protesters -- "many of them older and most of them white," according to the report -- were holding birther signs and signs calling to "Impeach Obama". Obama cited progress in reducing the backlog of disability claims in his address Saturday.
Progress in reducing the backlog of disability claims stalled.
