Sentence examples for average upwards from inspiring English sources

The ultra-rich skew that average upwards: admission to the 1% began at $380,000 in 2008.

Substantial jumps in pay for the top 5% of male employees has pulled the overall male average upwards, thus creating the growing difference.

The results suggest that a core-annular structure does not always mean the flow with downflow of solids near the bed wall, it also includes the flow in which solids travel, on the time average, upwards rapidly in the dilute core region and much more slowly in the dense annular region.

We can be proactive instead of reactive and plan ahead, when you see that we average upwards of 30,000 gun related deaths here in the United States of America every year.

Shifting the average upwards increases the variance and the rightward skew, which pushes a higher proportion of the population above the 85th and 95th percentile thresholds.

Gamblers always think of averaging down and hardly think of averaging upwards.

For plants adjusting their average wage upwards, the annual adjustment cost makes up as much as 0.8% of revenue on average.

The hospital has a sanctioned strength of 170 beds but the occupancy, on an average, remains upwards of 350-400 pathents," the magazine reports.

The polygenic EBV were on average biased upwards and the QTL-EBV were biased downwards, or in other words the QTL-effects were underestimated, but the polygenic EBV absorbed this effect.

As a social species living in close quarters at high densities — the average hive contains upwards of 30,000 insects — honeybees are prone to a staggering diversity of fungal, bacterial and viral diseases.

And if you are trying to sell in Coventry, where prices slumped by 1.4% that month, or in Gwent, where they fell by 2.4%, it's not much consolation that the national average is pointing upwards.