The phrase "a surplus of around" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an approximate excess or additional amount of something, often in financial or quantitative contexts.
Example: "The company reported a surplus of around $500,000 at the end of the fiscal year."
Alternatives: "an excess of approximately" or "a surplus of about".
So subtract about $2.7 trillion, which leaves a surplus of around $1.5 trillion.
It added that councils across England made a surplus of around £490m from parking activities between 2009 and 2010.
RM Only last year the chancellor thought he would have a surplus of around £23bn to play with this year.
Indeed, Jiming Ha, chief economist at China International Capital Corporation, an investment bank, reckons that if the profits of state-owned firms were also added in, the government could have a surplus of around 3% of GDP.
The likely $100 billion current-account deficits of emerging markets this year will turn into a surplus of around $20 billion, once inward direct investment by foreign multinationals is taken into account.
Nicholas Lardy, of the Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC, points out that the last time China had an investment bust, in the mid-1990s, conslowedon sharplyshandly and the current account shifted from a deficit of around 2% of GDP in 1993 to a surplus of around 4% in 1997.So far, consumption growth has barely been affected this time.
The resilient production in the United States, with rising production from Iraq and Saudi Arabia, has produced a surplus of oil around the globe of an estimated two million barrels a day.
Except, perhaps, that with a surplus of women around, it will be even harder than it is today for a girl to find a suitable husband when she grows up.
Finance and insurance generates a trade surplus of around £40bn a year from a workforce of just over a million.
Debt-sustainability analysis by the IMF suggests that they both need to aim for a primary surplus of around 3% of GDP.
"During a meeting with our employee representatives on Monday we confirmed that we will have a headcount surplus of around 750 members from August onwards.
