"long" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Public information numbers may be automated and agencies tend to have a long backlog of requests for help.
- This led to long backlogs of people trying to emigrate from Western Hemisphere countries into the United States.
- The plan would also shut out hundreds of thousands of people who have applied for family visas under current rules and are patiently waiting because of long backlogs.
- And long backlogs create intolerable pressure on the already overburdened jails for defendants awaiting trial, and impose a harsh cost on people not yet convicted of anything.
- However, according to the Wall Street Journal, the OCR has a long backlog and ignores most complaints.
- (A woman filed her application for citizenship three months too early and, by the time she was told to file again, found herself at the end of a long backlog.)
- They went to Pavel on a few occasions, threatening him with severe consequences if he would not share with them his long backlog of orders.
- Since its creation, the board has been troubled by chronic staffing shortages and a long backlog of incomplete investigations.
- Mr. O'Keefe said this was due to a long backlog at the laboratory, which he said was caused by a lack of resources.
- He had already lost two years of valuable time since completing A/L due to the long backlog in entering universities those days.
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