The phrase "around the upper end" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a location or position that is near the top or upper part of something.
Example: "The temperature is expected to hover around the upper end of the scale this week."
Alternatives: "near the top" or "at the higher end".
Daly won the Open at St. Andrews in 1995, ballooned in weight in subsequent years, did some rehab, and now has an implanted turnbuckle around the upper end of his stomach, like a great cormorant on the Yangtze River.
The chain of buckets passes around the upper end of the ladder at a drive sprocket (called the upper tumbler) and loops downward to an idler sprocket (the lower tumbler) at the bottom.
ÆIN 1045 constitutes a complete monolith column capital of white limestone in the shape of a rosette of palm leaves, tied around the upper end of the column shaft.
The bedrock exposed in the mountains around the upper end of Taylor Glacier displays a dramatic interleaving of white sandstone layers intruded by black basalt.
Some analysts are now throwing around numbers of $70 billion on the upper end -- but it's not hard to see how the ultimate cost to BP could rise even higher.
At the lower end of the distribution, Moldova displays a GDP pc in PPP of around 2,860 US-$, whereas Croatia forms the upper end with around 17,800 US-$, followed by Belarus with slightly more than 12,700 US-$.
That steady rate of around 8.2 percent is also at the upper end of the central tendency that the Fed reported in its June forecast for economic conditions this year.
FiveThirtyEight's forecast sees Mr. Romney earning somewhere around 29 percent this time around, but he might need to be close to the upper end of our projected vote range, 39 percent, in order to best Newt Gingrich.
"Foreclosed properties start at $40,000 and the upper end is around $319,000.
Workmen are said to be toiling around the clock on the tunnel, the upper end of which can be seen at the lower edge of the Zona Rosa.
Based on the listings available on the Web, the upper end appears to be around the $900,000 to $1.1 million price range for a three-bedroom condo.
