Example sentences for: remainder

How can you use “remainder” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Customs Service retains an amount equal to the estimated cost of collecting these duties, including all costs of operations in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and an allocation of overhead; it transfers the remainder to the Treasury, which, in turn, transfers the collections to Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands.

  • The remainder of the transaction does not provide a net inflow of resources, so no gain, revenue, or other financing source is recognized.

  • During the first 14 and final four high volume weeks of the postal fiscal year, 200 households are surveyed per week; for the remainder of the year, 50 households are surveyed weekly.

  • Compare the eeriest passages of The Tin Drum with Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's descriptions of the wintry death marches by means of which the Nazis killed off most of the remainder of their concentration-camp prisoners at the end of the war--exercises in pure surrealism, with skeletons moving slowly through a well-fed German countryside--and suddenly even Grass' fertile imagination seems impoverished.

  • The bondsman's fee is usually 10 percent of the bail, with defendants putting up collateral for the remainder.


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