Demand jumped, but banks still had a backlog of applications - and not enough staff on hand to work through them all.

The current draft would help to cut the huge backlog of applications that hamper the court's efficiency.

Mortgage applicants face long delays as lenders deal with a backlog of applications by those coming to the end of cheap deals.

By the time the cold snap was over, the backlog of work was overwhelming.

The building industry has been catching up with a backlog of work after delays due to bad weather.

Almost half claimed to have 'problems readjusting after taking time off', while a third fretted about catching up with their backlog of work.

It said that it had a remaining backlog of work worth about $7 billion.

The orders are worth a total of $333 million, or more than a quarter of the existing backlog of work, put at $1.2 billion at the end of last year.

Bosses were swamped with applications after revealing they would hire 30,000 temps to clear the backlog of letters and parcels caused by walkouts.

The firm said it was working to clear the backlog.

It took the whole day to clear the backlog.

The era of larger grants enabled cathedrals to clear a backlog of urgent, vital work.

Their stock fell even lower after rate-fixing and a computer failure to clear the backlog.

The planned series of action has the potential to reduce the movement of mail to a trickle and create a backlog exceeding 100 million items.

However, this could create a backlog, exacerbating problems next year.

This created a backlog of passengers that the airline was still trying to clear last night after the problem was fixed.

Long rain delays from previous days created a backlog of matches.

His choice of topics are usually spontaneous, with his low rate of production creating a backlog of videos he would like to make.

It blamed a maintenance backlog and infrastructure problems.

A 5 billion maintenance backlog also needs to be cleared after years of raiding repair budgets to cover hospital overspending.

Not only are we seeing a growing maintenance backlog, but the proportion deemed 'high' and 'significant' risk has also been rising year by year.

This building value can be adjusted by premiums or deductions for maintenance backlog, harmful material, over or under rent etc.

A maintenance backlog developed during the war and the private sector only had two years to deal with this after the war ended.

It has an order backlog of $177 million, including one major order.

The company's total order backlog, which includes defence programmes, was 4 per cent lower at $339 billion.

With strong licensing fees and a record order backlog, the chip maker's shares could be in demand.

The company said that it would increase the interim dividend by 12.8 per cent and looked forward to the remainder of the year with confidence, given its solid order backlog.

The company's order backlog was at 'historical lows', but it said that it had an improving pipeline of work it was bidding for, of $3.6 billion.

We need to build more than 300,000 homes a year over the next decade to match population growth and reduce the backlog.

As of 2010, the opening rounds of the cup were played midweek, in order to reduce the backlog of fixtures that regularly afflicted shinty.

He supports efforts by the state legislature to reduce the number of bills proposed by individual lawmakers in order to reduce the backlog of legislations.

We've reduced the backlog from 14 months to 2 weeks.

The steep decline in unfilled orders reduced the backlog on factories' order books to $40.5-billion, the lowest level in almost five years.

They cause almost £1 billion worth of damage to vehicles and injure more than 70 cyclists a year, with a repair backlog that will cost up to £12 billion.

It has left roads with an estimated 9.3 billion repair backlog.

It was given a one-off grant of 80 million to deal with a repairs backlog.

Councils faced a road repairs backlog of £11.1 billion after the funding shortfall rose by 14 per cent in a year.

Councils estimate it would take 9.3billion and more than 14 years to clear the current local road repairs backlog.