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The phrase "a small surplus on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing financial matters, indicating a minor excess in revenue or resources over expenses or needs.
Example: "The company reported a small surplus on its annual budget, allowing for additional investments in new projects."
Alternatives: "a slight excess in" or "a minor profit on".
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On a similar basis, the government will by then be running a small surplus on the current budget, which excludes net investment (due to be slashed anyway over the next couple of years).
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.
Although the emerging markets have less room for easing now than they did in 2008, when they collectively ran a small surplus on their budgets, their average budget deficit last year was only 2% of GDP, against 8% in the G7 economies.
Its government will run a small surplus on its "primary" budget (ie, excluding interest costs) this year, and an overall deficit of less than 4% of GDP, below the euro-area average.Italy has fewer foreign debts than the other troubled euro-zone countries, as it ran only modest current-account deficits in the boom years.
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Over the next decade there will be a small surplus of $665 billion compared with the forecast surplus of $5.6 trillion that his administation inherited.
Between car park fees and rents, the woods deliver a small surplus to the Forestry Commission's coffers.
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.
2008-09, on the other hand, is expected to see a small surplus.
By 2018-19 no deficit – instead 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.
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