The government has not run a budget deficit since 2003.

Only a few times in the nation's history has the government run a budget surplus.

It has run a budget deficit for 21 of the last 22 years.

He is planning to run a budget surplus by 2019-20.

This can be done if the country runs a budget surplus.

The city is running a budget deficit this year estimated at nearly $12 million.

The government estimated it will run a budget deficit of C$85 billion over five years.

Russia is running a budget deficit for only the second time in a decade.

The last time that France ran a budget surplus was in 1974.

The state has little foreign debt and runs a budget surplus.

According to official estimates, China's government ran a budget deficit of around 1% last year.

The federal government ran a budget surplus of $159.3 billion in April, smaller than a year ago.

The last time the Japanese government ran a budget surplus was in 1992, almost two decades ago.

The government has ample resources and is running a budget surplus.

Reports said that the museum was running a budget deficit of €500,000 (£390,000).

We must remember that we are now running a budget in a Union of 370 million people.

"Most states are running a budget shortfall right now, but the degree of the crisis is so much greater in California."

Moreover, the Bush administration cut taxes for the rich as it went to war, despite running a budget deficit.

Russia ran a budget surplus from 2001 to 2008 when a financial crisis occurred.

There, the unemployment is now 14.1 percent and officials are running a budget deficit of roughly $1.7 billion.

The article claimed that “in normal times Scotland runs a budget surplus”.

Saudi Arabia has run a budget deficit in some years recently because of lower oil prices.

“In four out of the last five years, Scotland has run a budget surplus.

"For 40 years the Soviet statistics said they were running a budget surplus.

Labour might also have to acknowledge that it was wrong to run a budget deficit during the boom years.