Sentence examples for a small surplus but from inspiring English sources

A small surplus, but a surplus.

Museum officials had hoped to end the first fiscal year, which ended in June 2003, with a small surplus, but instead found a $400,000 deficit.

In the 1970s, the UK ran a small surplus but the abolition of exchange controls in 1979 led, during the 1980s, to a ever-widening gap between spending by UK holidaymakers abroad and that by visitors to the UK.

The administration claims there is a small surplus coming up, but I think there'll be a deficit of $25 billion, $50 billion.

The state comptroller, Alan G. Hevesi, claimed that the authority could have arranged its finances to end this fiscal year with a small surplus, instead of a sizable deficit, but that it did not do so and effectively hid that fact from the public.

But the state is actually projected to have a small surplus next year, depending on how it handles its debt to Minnesota and a couple of other key issues.

By 2018-19 no deficit – instead a small surplus.

But some economists reckon that the cautious government is understating its true fiscal health: it probably had a small surplus.

Spain's had shrunk to 3.5 percent of G.D.P. last year while Ireland actually had a small surplus.

Then, the budget was in deficit; this calendar year, a small surplus is expected.

Myanmar, once the world's biggest rice exporter, still produces a small surplus.