Sentence examples for several surplus from inspiring English sources

The project was given a boost after the U.S. intelligence agency responsible for satellite surveillance, the National Reconnaissance Office, told NASA that it had several surplus telescopes that could be repurposed for civilian use.

It turns out that the world food crisis of 2007-08 was caused mainly by America's loose dollars and by the surging demand for biofuels, and was worsened by export restrictions in several surplus countries as well as by low grain stocks, especially in East Asia.

To achieve this, you must eradicate several surplus content, clutter and jargon and jot down in minimal, plain expressions that everybody comprehends.

Suddenly, lawmakers, lobbyists and a swarm of interest groups have rushed to grab a share of the state's extra cash, proposing competing plans that, when taken together, would spend the surplus several times over.

The lower case is deliberate, and meant to show that the phrase is a quotation, but it's very hard to say, and in our house it's known as several s's, surplus s's.

Several of the surplus legacy Bombardier cab cars and in-line cars are stored just outside Union Station along the track used by Pacific Surfliner, OC Line, and 91 Line trains along the Los Angeles River.

This event, coupled with French consumers moving away from cheap red wines in the 1970s, has contributed to several decades of surplus wine production in France, with Languedoc as the largest contributor to the European "wine lake" and recurring European Union subsidies aimed at reducing production.

Then Mr. Davis acknowledged that after several years of surpluses, the state was facing a budget shortfall this year and next that could reach nearly $24 billion.

Bernie R. Pinsonat, who conducted the poll, said the governor's popularity has been in a "free fall" since the budget crisis developed earlier this year after several years of surpluses.

The year before that, there was a small overspend and that came after several years of surpluses.

That surplus had several causes.