The phrase "a surplus one" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that is in excess or more than what is needed, often in contexts related to resources or quantities.
Example: "The company has produced a surplus one of the product, which will be stored for future demand."
Alternatives: "an excess one" or "a redundant one".
New York City sold a surplus one last week for $3,210, bench included.
Economists also emphasize that, if the amount of interest Italy pays on its debt is excluded, the country is running not a deficit but a surplus, one that is expected to be 2.5 percent of gross domestic product in 2012, the highest of any major developed economy.
If you run a surplus on one account you must run a deficit on the other.
Based on this philosophy, it is better to spend a surplus on one-time expenditures.
While those figures produce a $14,679 surplus, one of Brodshatzer's major conclusions is that if a pro-rated portion of Tom Shepard & Associates' staff expenses, overhead and operating costs had been charged to the Hedgecock campaign, the firm actually "lost" between $137,887 and $157,386, depending on the accounting method used.
Here he expresses the concern that voting gives one a say not only over one's own life but also over the lives of others and that without contributing to the production of an economic surplus one has no right to help determine how this surplus is distributed.
Ofcom attempted to tackle this issue in its report by arguing there may be a case for a "one-off allocation of funding" – with the BBC's £130m-a-year digital switchover surplus one potential source – to "facilitate structural relationships".
Retail Surplus, one of the company's storefronts on eBay, for example, recently offered a Hewlett-Packard DeskJet D2430 printer, described as "an open-box return that 'looks new,' " meaning the packaging "may be worn and retaped" but "the item should function properly".
In a flexible, responsive market, producers ought to be able to react to a surplus of one thing by switching to making another thing.
RICHARD STRANZL Graton, Calif., Aug. 15, 2012 The Writer Responds When the one president who strongly self-identified as a boomer, Bill Clinton, left us with a surplus, no one praised boomers for selflessness, and indeed the anti-boomer sentiment never abated.
Being nice shouldn't undermine the perception of a person's competence, yet when it comes to women, we tend to view the two traits as inversely related – a surplus of one leading to the belief you're deficient in the other.
