surplus

How To Use surplus In A Sentence

• Gradually coffee came to replace maize as the main agricultural produce of the community and foodstuffs were bought with surplus cash.
• He'd borrowed the Chamberlains ' army-surplus Humvee on the off chance that Cyberdyne could identify him, and Sarah, by their vehicle. T2: INFILTRATOR
• The problem is that their remarkable efficiency allows them to overproduce almost any commodity, so agriculture tends to lurch from surplus to surplus.
• The recovery is on track, the current-account surplus is healthy, capital flows are strong, companies are restructuring and the recapitalization of banks is almost complete.
• * The Minister of Agriculture to review the use of surplus funds carried from levies on the 1994 crop, and to make levies available to stabilize the price of maize for human consumption in the coming season, rather than paying levies to commercial farmers as an "agterskot" as has been suggested in a press statement by ANC Daily News Briefing
• The book's title alludes to an anti-Semitic law legislated by Frederick II of Prussia that every Jew at marriage had to purchase a surplus of goods from the royal china factory.
• That surplus is being unexpectedly whittled away as the income tax cut and the economic slowdown lower federal tax receipts.
• We can now evaluate the effects of this change in terms of the alteration in surplus.
• But if some of the organic carbon is taken out, some of the oxygen is surplus to requirements. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
• Fortunately the school's bank account is currently in surplus.