The phrase "at the very upper" is not standard in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in contexts where you want to emphasize the highest point or level of something, but it is better to use more conventional expressions.
Example: "The temperature is at the very upper limit of what the equipment can handle."
Alternatives: "at the highest point" or "at the topmost level."
Mr. Walentas said the $1,215 a square foot paid for the two apartments was at the very upper end of prices in the neighborhood.
Mortdecai is an art dealer at the very upper end of the scale, a fantasy alter-ego of Bonfiglioli's (who was himself an art dealer, inter alia).
Professor Michiel van den Broeke, of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, warned: "Sea-level rises are at the very upper end of what the IPCC has predicted".
The caliber of our medical school class remains unmatched, with about a 4% acceptance rate and "yield" rate on accepted applicants that is consistently at the very upper end among peer medical schools.
At the very upper end of the income spectrum, other changes in the plan — such as lowering the top tax rate and creating a lower rate for pass-through filers — are likely to provider tax relief, and deductions are already limited at the top.
We're at the very upper end of the age range here, with a passionate love story set in the late 1800s on an island on the Massachusetts coast, where generations of matrilineal witches keep the whaling fleets and the island folk safe from harm, at a price.
Recall that Facebook raised its IPO price range before pricing at the very upper-end.
Look in the very upper left corner of your canvas.
"It's one of those class distinction indicators that people like to hang onto to show that they're upper class," said Robin Harcourt Williams, the librarian at Hatfield House, the home of the very upper-class Cecil (rhymes with thistle) family.
Buying into the stereotype that all gay people are rich (or at the very least, upper middle class) is about as accurate as saying that the The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills represents all the straight married women in Southern California.
It involves statistical extrapolation of extreme response distribution at very upper tail region for the estimation of long-term extreme responses from short-term field or simulation data.
