Sentence examples for a small surplus in from inspiring English sources

In fiscal policy, the federal budget swung sharply, from a stimulative deficit of 3.8 percent of G.D.P. in 1936 to a small surplus in 1937.

"Slightly disappointing news for the chancellor, Philip Hammond, as the public finances could only eke out a small surplus in July," said Howard Archer, the chief UK economist at IHS Global Insight.

The budget went from a deficit of 6.7% of GDP in 1994 to a small surplus in 1997.It may be that tax hikes, particularly for the better off, are politically necessary to ensure popular acceptance that pain is being shared.

The White House estimated today that economic growth would rebound to 3.2percentt next year from a projected 1.7percentthis yearandand that the current year would bring a small surplus in the non-Social Security part of the budget.

The Office for Budget Responsibility has forecast borrowing will continue to fall from £95.5bn this year to £75.2bn in 2015-16, £44.5bn in 2016-17, £16.5bn in 2017-18, beforecordinging a small surplus in 2018-19.

Producer prices rose by 0.3% in the year to September in Germany, but fell in Denmark by the same amount.France's trade balance chalked up a smaller surplus in August than in July, but the 12-month surplus widened to $9.7 billion, from $9.4 billion.

"A smaller surplus in the future would force a choice among reducing services, raising taxes or shifting the priorities in their budgets," according to the report by the Independent Budget Office, which was created by the City Charter revision of 1989 to provide nonpartisan fiscal analysis for taxpayers and elected officials.

Economists had expected a small surplus of £50m in one of the strongest months of the year for tax receipts, but an increase in government spending resulted in the state posting a deficit of £239m instead.

And Mr Osborne did have something big to announce: that the fiscal consolidation would go beyond restoring the structural current budget (ie, excluding investment spending) to balance, which should happen in 2017-18, to achieving a small surplus on the overall budget in 2018-19, would would be the fourth year of the next government.

The Coalition is proposing budget deficits of $84.6bn over the next four years before possibly achieving a small surplus of 0.2% of GDP in 2021, as long as all the assumptions turn out to be dandy, which they almost never do.

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.