Sentence examples for a slight surplus from inspiring English sources

This fiscal year should show a slight surplus, she said.

The fiscal balance had swung from a slight surplus in 1997 to a 4% deficit in 2000.

Yet even in its earliest stages agriculture was significant to the organization of work, for it provided a slight surplus that could be used to support human society's first real specialists: makers of metal tools and weapons.

While foreigners now own more in American investments than Americans own overseas, the country still enjoys a slight surplus in earnings because the rate of return on many older American investments is higher than foreigners are receiving here.

Some money remains unaccounted for, but, Mr. Galligan said, an audit done by a private firm the diocese hired determined that an accounting error had made the school's budget appear to be in arrears, when in fact there was a slight surplus.

The reason is that under the infinite horizon, the higher taxes collected on high income earners (on payroll and investment income) more than offset the higher amounts paid in Part A reimbursements over the infinite horizon, generating a slight surplus.

Agency officials expect to be able to balance the budget for the remainder of this year largely because of the elimination of hundreds of jobs and plans to tap into a reserve fund that exists because of a previous year's slight surplus.

With some cuts already in place, the government projected a slight budget surplus for 2011.

But the nation's imports plunged at a similar rate that year, allowing Japan to eke out a slight trade surplus.

In Buffalo, which has had a slight budget surplus for the last few years, a long-running legal fight with the teachers' union has left unresolved whether the city might ultimately have to pay millions of dollars it has not budgeted.

When Néstor Carlos Kirchner was elected president in 2003, Argentina ran a slight fiscal surplus of 0.12percentt.