1.   Bush spent the campaign pretending that this was an election about the budget surplus, or social security or the military.

2.   Some practices were therefore thinking again about employing additional professionals out of budget surpluses.

3.   The budget surplus could be used to hire and train more border guards.

4.   The government is running a large budget surplus and expects to carry on doing so.

5.   The result has been a burgeoning budget surplus.

6.   They had low and Declining inflation, several consecutive years of budget surpluses and high domestic savings ratios.

7.   Japan is in the enviable position of having a budget surplus.

8.   The number crunchers in Washington are expecting a budget surplus by the fall.

9.   The budget surplus would continue to provide Australia with a period of sustained budgetary discipline unprecedented in its history.

10.   Even when the government runs a budget surplus the Bank of England will still have to manage the national debt.