I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight...

"I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years,' she announced with some small sense of achievement. 'I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade."

Jasper Fforde

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