While institute officials would not be more specific, it is understood that some requests involved airport terminals and towers, federal office buildings, parking garages and museums, and that the details sought sometimes included mechanical, electrical and structural systems.
"This burgeoning backlog is entirely attributable to the fact that they took these records down," she said, adding that, by her calculation, more than 70percentt of the requests involved records that would have been available online before February.
Mr. Sheikha, 33, a Palestinian born in Saudi Arabia, said the site has led to 160 weddings since it started in March, he said, and more than half the marriage requests involved men seeking a second or third wife (though not yet a fourth).
The Football Association said in a statement: "The Fifa Ethics Committee made specific requests and responding to these requests involved searching in excess of 500,000 documents.
Typically the requests involved user account information for criminal investigations or cases.
Especially when there are special requests involved, you can save everyone a lot of headache by making sure the order is correct before bringing it to the table.
