Sentence examples for number of surplus from inspiring English sources

When the number of surplus workers rose sharply, the country also had ways of reducing it.

Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary, said the number of surplus MRAPs for allies could be in the hundreds.

"And as well as providing an enhanced learning environment for pupils, the creation of the new school will remove a large number of surplus places which are currently a significant drain on the funding the council provides to Cardiff's schools.

The number of surplus places is forecast to reduce substantially in the next few years, although it is unlikely that there will ever be a shortage of places unless there are some school closures".

In 1999, they noted, the Chinese academy of social sciences admitted that the birth-sex ratio in that country had reached 120 boys for every 100 girls, and that the number of surplus Chinese males was now 111 million.

In 1993, the Federal Aviation Administration, unprepared for the growing number of surplus military jets coming in from former Soviet bloc countries, stopped issuing the permits that let them fly here -- a moratorium that lasted two years.

Because the water flows into the upper reservoirs, there is less space to store the surpluses that arise on the German side of the system, which increases the number of surpluses in the inflow-scenarios.

This is important, since large shares of IRES within an electricity system do not only lead to a lower reliability of supply, but also give rise to major concerns on the number of surpluses on the grid.

However, when the large upper reservoir of Veytaux serves in middle load (PPM-scenarios), the number of surpluses that remain un-stored increase stronger in the solar-scenario compared to the other IRES-scenarios (0.6 TWh versus 0).

"I think that there very few parts of the country which have significant numbers of surplus places that are getting free schools," Laws told the MPs.

Large numbers of surplus blastocysts are routinely generated in fertility clinics, and the merest handful of these have provided all the stem cells used in research.