1. Labour will back a charter requiring the government to deliver an overall surplus by 2019-20.

2. It would be in surplus from 2018-19.

3. Germany, which had a deficit of 4.2 percent of GDP in 2003, cut its way to a budget surplus by 2007.

4. The benefits to China from that surplus have been increasing rapidly in the past few years.

5. That meant that the state grant was pure surplus and had to be returned.

6. If a shared arrangement was implemented, the requirement for a large surplus stock could be reduced.

7. Some surplus item sales were banned altogether while others now require more paperwork to obtain.

8. Once they meet a state quota, they can keep and sell any surplus on their own.

9. More of the surplus is heading to other countries.

10. We will have a supply surplus this year.

11. Such a reduction could turn thousands of auto dealerships into surplus real estate.