| 1 | The goods have been piling up in stock and can't be sold because of poor quality. | |
| 2 | He used the occasion to express all his old grievances against the chairman. | |
| 3 | He has already pledged to slash the backlog of claims and to do more for the off-reserve aboriginals. | |
| 4 | The skies over Europe reopened Wednesday as airlines scrambled to clear a backlog of flights grounded by a vast cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland. | |
| 5 | The result has been a backlog at many centres - in Los Angeles, for example, students waited up to 40 days for a visa. |