Sentence examples for has become surplus from inspiring English sources

Power companies argue that while coal-fired stations are being hit by tougher pollution regulations emanating from Europe, the economics of gas ones are also being hit by a combination of factors including relatively high wholesale gas prices when compared with cheap coal supplies exported from the US – where it has become surplus to requirements thanks to the country's shale gas boom.

As Angel Di Maria and Mesut Ozil have discovered in the last two summers, Perez is always prepared to dispense with superstars when he believes they have become surplus to requirements - irrespective of whether the incumbent coach shares that opinion.

McGrath, Rankine and Rodman were sent back to their parent clubs, having become surplus to requirements under Worthington.

The station was built on the site of the Stoke Gifford marshalling yard, which closed on 4 October 1971, having become surplus to requirements with the cessation of wagonload freight trains.

But on Brown's watch, deficits have become surpluses, helped along by tax hikes the governor persuaded voters to approve.

More good news for A.P.C. fans: the shop at 92 Perry Street has become an A.P.C. Surplus store, stocking marked-down pieces from past collections.

In an interview today, Mrs. Bost said that the township was inching its way back to solvency; she noted that a $10 million deficit when she took office has become a $4.2 million surplus and that under her leadership more than 60 businesses have moved into the township.

The perennial Japanese trade surplus has become a major political issue between Tokyo and Washington.

Now the surplus has become a £15bn deficit, with £10bn of the losses coming in the past week alone.

It's no surprise that in these financially difficult times, the question of what to do with this surplus has become an increasingly contentious matter.

In recent decades, butter has become a way of storing surplus milk.