Sentence examples for a vast surplus from inspiring English sources
There's a vast surplus of you lot.
Yet there was already a vast surplus of workers, because of a bulge in the working-age population.
As a result, there is a vast surplus of permits — about 800 million tons' worth, according to Point Carbon.
Bred for biomedical research, they are now unemployed, a result of a vast surplus of laboratory chimpanzees.
At the rate these technologies are improving, we may well be heading toward a time when most jobs can be done by machines of various kinds – where humanity's output is collectively vast but where there's also a vast surplus of labor and, for many, no prospect of employment that pays enough to afford the bounty.
Similar declines in Italy, Spain, and other countries have left Europe with a vast surplus, known in the trade as "the wine lake" and estimated, in 2006, at a billion and a half litres — the equivalent of four bottles of undrunk wine for every European citizen.
California wound up with a vast revenue surplus, which, though it eventually generated a taxpayers' revolt, sufficiently impressed President Richard Nixon to make Weinberger head of the federal trade commission in 1970.
Re "In Currency Games, the Prize May Be a Trade War" (April 11), which saw a threat of Chinese retaliation against possible United States trade measures to counterbalance an undervalued Chinese currency: Because China has such a vast trade surplus with the United States, the Chinese would stand to lose the most in a trade war.
In addition, the vast surplus of higher-enriched fuel Iran was to get under the deal would have permitted some to be diverted to its bomb program.
Today China has a huge surplus.
The practice of tying subsidies to food production, which led to vast surpluses in the 1980s, was eliminated in a series of reforms, and grants to landowners are now based on the amount of land farmed, rather than how much is grown on it.
