Surplus in example sentence

Even in absolute value, Saudi Arabia’s multilateral merchandise surplus of $212 billion in 2008 dwarfs China’s $175 billion surplus; as a percentage of GDP, Saudi Arabia’s current-account surplus, at 11.5% of GDP, is more than twice that of China.

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Reservations are cut up into 160-acre sections, and distributed to individual Indians with the surplus disposed of.

Most of the surplus land and many of the plots within reservation boundaries are now in the hands of white ranchers.

I moved there primarily to be part of a learning environment that validated the way that I knew that kids learned, and that really wanted to investigate what was possible when you are willing to let go of some of the paradigms of the past, of information scarcity when my grandmother was in school and when my father was in school and even when I was in school, and to a moment when we have information surplus.

Our cities, I would put to you, are stockpiles of these surplus capacities.

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