How long should a weekly review take?

Steady-state weeks are a bulk approve on the clean sections plus a look at a handful of flagged rows.

Your first run is the exception — it clears everything that accumulated before you started, so it is the largest queue you will see. Onboarding deliberately hands you a small high-confidence set first rather than the whole backlog.

If reviews are consistently taking a long time, the usual cause is an evidence bar set low enough to surface marginal rows. Raising it trades a little coverage for a much shorter queue.