Sentence examples for surplus has reached from inspiring English sources

Mr Zapatero claims that the budget surplus has reached a record-breaking 2% of GDP.

Its primary budget surplus has reached 1.5%.

It has an inflation rate of less than 1% and a current-account surplus that has reached 15% of GDP.

A booming real estate market, combined with a 120-year-old state law that allocates a fixed portion of local taxes to libraries, has created a surplus that has reached into the millions of dollars for some libraries in towns on the Jersey Shore.

But a better move would be to make a clear early commitment that the euro zone will honour its semi-promise in 2012 to give Greece additional debt relief, through lower interest rates and longer maturities, now that it has reached a primary surplus.

They urge any candidate that has reached the threshold of 35 nominations to encourage some of their surplus nominators to make a tactical transfer to contenders who are struggling to reach the threshold.

A number of economists believe China has reached a turning-point in its development, having exhausted its supply of surplus labour.

Korea's current account surplus is forecast to have reached $40 billion in 1998, while its currency reserves are up from $7 billion late in 1997 to a record $46 billion.

Ms. Hedegaard issued a report on Thursday showing the surplus of permits on the market had reached a record high.

The surplus narrowed from August, when it had reached $20 billion, but it was still an enormous figure, analysts said.

Surpluses continue to be bigger than expected: on October 24th the Clinton administration announced that the budget surplus for fiscal 2000 (excluding Social Security) had reached $87 billion, $68 billion more than the president's number-crunchers had expected in February.