Sentence examples for a big surplus in from inspiring English sources

While Mr. Bloomberg called for financial austerity in the face of a rapid downturn in the economy, the Council accused him of overstating the city's woes, pointing to a big surplus in the 2008 budget.

But no one seems to know whether the costs will be low enough to offset the rock-bottom price for cotton, caused mainly by a decline in global demand and a big surplus in China.

And while latecomers like India have been playing catch-up, America's service-sector exports have not exactly done badly: they more than doubled in value between 1999 and 2008, when the US had a big surplus in its commercial-services trade.

A corn ethanol backer blasted the bill, saying expectations for a big surplus in this year's corn crop means more of the grain would simply go unused by next harvest if not needed by the ethanol industry.

Since there is a big surplus of capacity in the broadcasting industry, the BBC should be able to cut its spare facilities and switch to a similar system.Managers amokAlthough the BBC's Resources division could cut its costs further, at least these have declined since Mr Birt's reforms began.

As Mr Shirakawa usefully pointed out Japan experienced a bubble in the 1980s when running a big surplus while the US had one in the 2000s before the financial crisis when running a deficit.

In the 1990s, there was a big surplus.

There was a big surplus.

India enjoys a big surplus on service trade.

China has a big surplus, but of the former "crisis countries" only Malaysia has a large surplus (11% of GDP).

What should we do with a big surplus?