That the intensification of the fiscal crisis after 2008 is attributable to the financial crisis rather than a surfeit of democracy is borne out by quantitative studies that have found a positive correlation between the size of a country’s financial sector and the scale of new debt taken on in the wake of the crisis

buried under a surfeit of "post-" prefixes

a rather irksome surfeit of quotation marks

the surfeit of digital image-production—spam advertising being the most abundant—is neither the swarm of wish-fulfilment fantasies nor the tool of domination it is often taken to be

a surfeit of luxury homes while everyone else crams themselves into shared flats and ever-more constrained lives

suffering from a surfeit of bloody pungency