Sentence examples for a sharp upward from inspiring English sources

The figures also show a sharp upward long-term trend.

Instead he was retained, took 17 wickets in New Zealand and arrived at Old Trafford on a sharp upward curve.

"They have always been good, but this season, they have gone like this," Shpilband said, tilting his left hand at a sharp upward angle.

The result was a curve showing little variation for nearly 1,000 years and then a sharp upward hook in recent decades.

Finance ministry data released Monday also showed a healthy increase in corporate investment, pointing to a sharp upward revision to second-quarter G.D.P. data due next week from the preliminary figure, which showed a 2.6 percent rate of expansion.

The graph shows a long, relatively unwavering line of temperatures across the last millennium (the stick), followed by a sharp, upward turn of warming over the last century (the blade).

The hallmark of the original method is a graph widely called the "hockey stick" because of its shape: a long, relatively unwavering line crossing the last millennium and then a sharp, upward-turning "blade" of warming over the last century.

ENDING a sometimes sharp upward climb, the rise in the number of registered motor vehicles in Nassau and Suffolk Counties has begun to slow.

For most basic models, all you'll need to do is give the yo yo a small, sharp upward tug.

At the same time, she admits to being more than a little bit startled at the sharp upward curve her professional life has taken in the last couple of years.

Although her lead in the survey, from Public Policy Polling, was within the poll's margin of error, it is probably right to consider her a very slight favorite to defeat Mr. Castle based on the sharp upward trajectory in her numbers - a phenomenon that can sometimes be dispositive in primaries, where voters may jump on the bandwagon of a once-obscure candidate who suddenly appears to be viable.