Sentence examples for deficit approaching from inspiring English sources

Their first task will be to deal with a budget deficit approaching 4% of GDP.

Since its start-up, the company has accumulated a deficit approaching $40 million.

The hospital was losing more than $4 million a year on dialysis, contributing to a deficit approaching $200 million this fiscal year.

With Suffolk facing a budget deficit approaching $80 million, he said, the last thing taxpayers need is a thickly upholstered county payroll.

But this week, both sides agreed reluctantly on something else: that for the first time in 11 years, Connecticut will probably need to borrow money to pay off a current budget deficit approaching $800 million.

But the chair of the British Medical Association, Dr Mark Porter, said: "We have got an NHS with a deficit approaching 100 times that amount opening up over the course of this parliament.

Its budget deficit approaches $17m.

By the mid-1980s, the U.S. deficit approached an annual figure of $200,000,000,000 and was seen as a central economic problem.

That pact calls on the commission, the European Union's executive body, to issue early warnings when a member country's deficit approaches the ceiling.

"If an end-of-year deficit approaches the worst-case scenario laid out in these figures – £2.8bn – it is hard to see how the Department of Health will avoid overspending its budget for the year, something that has never happened before".

As a rule, once a country's external deficit approaches 5% of GDP, its currency tends to fall.To trigger a slide, foreign investors do not have to become net sellers of American assets.