Sentence examples for modest surplus from inspiring English sources
Greece's budget should show a modest surplus of between 0.4% and 0.8% of GDP.
The Tories have a smaller deficit and the Lib Dems a modest surplus.
Mr. Zhou also questioned whether China's modest surplus in overall trade would endure.
Just a few years ago, the state's economy was booming and there was a modest surplus in electricity.
Despite a sharp deterioration in the budgetary position in the final months of 2008, the full-year outturn is expected to show a modest surplus.
What if you kept just the entitlement programs and got rid of everything else? You'd have a modest surplus — about $109 billion.
But even those modest surpluses assume that Mr. Bush's tax cuts last year expire in 2010, as scheduled.
The CBO's projections suggest that a few years of modest surpluses would have a sizeable impact on the national debt.
According to J. P. Morgan's Mr. Carmichael, Mr. Martin's commitment to balanced budgets or "modest" surpluses should see the ratio of debt to gross domestic product maintain a gradual decline.
NOVEMBER SURPRISE -- Imaginative cost-cutting, restructuring of the debt and the national economic rebound will wipe out sizable city and state deficits and yield modest surpluses to be announced just before Election Day.
Yet Emirates could make a modest profit of €1.5 million, or $2 million, from a small surplus of permits, each representing a ton of carbon dioxide, that airlines can trade as part of the system.
