Sentence examples for building up a surplus from inspiring English sources

The longer the impasse lasts, the longer the state spends money at last year's pace, building up a surplus for 2002, an election year.

Manufacturers solve the problem by building up a surplus of their product in off-peak periods, but electricity cannot be stored; it must be produced at the instant the consumer wants it.

Jeffrey L. Sommer, the acting executive director of the control board, said in an interview that even though the mayor's proposed budget for next year was balanced, he should start "building up a surplus to use in 2006, because that is the troubled year".

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"There are tricks, of course, like building up a magazine's pile with surplus stock of other magazines.

Over the last 30 years, China has hitched its economy to the industrial world, exporting cheap goods to the United States and other developed nations, building up an enormous trade surplus that will hit about $400 billion this year.

The ostensible purpose was to generate a surplus within the Social Security system, building up a trust fund to pay benefits once the baby boomers retire.

(Excluding Social Security, which was building up a reserve fund to cover future shortfalls, the projected surpluses were between $800 billion and $1.9 trillion).

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But in my understanding from actually looking at the 1983 commission, they actually started prefunding the retirement of the baby boom by building up that huge surplus.

LAWSON: (I t's my understanding from actually looking at the 1983 commission (which revamped Social Security), they actually started prefunding the retirement of the baby boom by building up that huge surplus.