Sentence examples for turned into a surplus from inspiring English sources
A huge rice deficit quickly turned into a surplus, and Vietnam soon became the third largest rice exporter in the world.
Thanks to generous government subsidies for farm fertilisers, tobacco output, the economy's mainstay, soared and a former big food deficit was turned into a surplus.
He said many of President Obama's officials were in the Clinton administration when deficits turned into a surplus, "and they know how to do it again".
Thanks to generous fertiliser subsidies, tobacco production, the economy's mainstay, has soared and a food deficit has turned into a surplus.
Remember that the Tories' record deficit of 1993/94 was turned into a surplus in five years, thanks largely to tight spending and higher taxes from the then chancellor Ken Clarke, plans that were adopted by Labour in 1997.
In 1964, he inherited a balance of payments deficit of £800m, in 1970, thanks to shrewd economic management, it had been turned into a surplus of £550m, a 20th century record.
As the trade deficit gradually turns into a surplus, Greece could repay some creditors, and, as the economy strengthens, foreign direct investment will rise as well.
The likely $100 billion current-account deficits of emerging markets this year will turn into a surplus of around $20 billion, once inward direct investment by foreign multinationals is taken into account.
The latest forecasts show a £73.5bn deficit in the current financial year, dipping to a shortfall of just £4.6bn in 2018-19, and turning into a surplus of £10.1bn by 2019-20.
And the long-term deficit projections are a result of our healthcare system: if you substitute the healthcare costs of any other high-income country (or any country with a life expectancy as high as ours) in the US's budget, the long-term deficit turns into a surplus.
When the economy is robust and reaches full employment, government revenues will rise and the deficit could turn into a surplus; as it did during the last year of the Clinton administration.
