While the office's conviction rate has grown under Mr. Howard, himself a former assistant district attorney, many judges are exasperated by their enormous backlogs.

Nationwide, cash-strapped school districts face an enormous $270 billion backlog of deferred maintenance and repairs.

"We ended the quarter with an enormous backlog in iPod Nanos," Mr. Cook said.

Mr. Doucette said he was expecting a flood of customer calls about the enormous backlog of telephone line repairs and new service orders.

With this law, the government began implementing a participatory justice system, known as Gacaca, in order to address the enormous backlog of cases.

For some, like troubled eToys, disappointing holiday traffic created an enormous backlog of inventory.

But an enormous backlog of untaxed cases of wine is building up in the producers' warehouses.

The sad message of the enormous backlog at the service is that we are endangering an alarming number of species, especially through the destruction of habitat.

The 7,000 miners are those whose cases, while filed before 1980, were caught in the program's enormous backlog and are still pending.

Citing an enormous backlog of cases caused by drug-related crime, Judge Wachtler last week requested a 10 percent spending increase for the state's court system, to $972 million.