| surplus be | 18.89 | Surpluses are up. | ||
| surplus continue | 2.63 | -- Trade surplus continues to drop. | ||
| surplus grow | 1.97 | Surpluses are still growing. | ||
| surplus mean | 1.97 | A trade surplus means that Japan exports more than it imports. | ||
| surplus shrink | 1.91 | The surplus had shrunk for five months between December and April. | ||
| surplus help | 1.65 | De Ocampo said the surplus had helped push down inflation and interest rates. | ||
| surplus come | 1.58 | Where did the surplus come from? | ||
| surplus go | 1.51 | The surplus would go to the state. | ||
| surplus materialize | 1.51 | Will the surplus materialize as predicted? | ||
| surplus fall | 1.12 | It was the sixth month the Japan-U.S. trade surplus fell. | ||
| surplus hurt | 1.12 | As a result, even a small surplus hurts prices. | ||
| surplus leave | 0.86 | The surplus leaves exporters with dollars to sell when bringing revenues home. | ||
| surplus rise | 0.79 | In September, the surplus rose for the first time in nine months. | ||
| surplus disappear | 0.72 | Bluntly put, if stock prices fall sharply, the budget surplus disappears. | ||
| surplus vanish | 0.66 | Surplus has vanished. | ||
| surplus boost | 0.59 | A smaller surplus boosts the dollar by reducing the amount of dollars Japanese exporters have to sell for yen. | ||
| surplus decline | 0.59 | The surplus declined for the first time in three months. | ||
| surplus expand | 0.59 | That surplus may have expanded last week, traders said. | ||
| surplus make | 0.59 | The burgeoning federal budget surplus is making them obsolete. | ||
| surplus remain | 0.59 | The surplus will remain at its current level for the time being, the bank said. |