Sentence examples for crept upward from inspiring English sources

Since Aug. 10, long-term interest rates have fallen, stock prices have risen and expectations of inflation have crept upward.

After declining for eight straight years, investment crept upward in 1999, then surged in 2000 and 2001.

Remarkably, lead levels crept upward despite that PWSA's failure to test homes with the highest risk of lead contamination.

With the broadening of the federal law, the number of eligible children has also crept upward, and the pressure on special education administrators has intensified proportionately.

Enrollment has crept upward, but it is still not as robust as needed, and Polytechnic has continued to face deficits of more than $2 million a year.

The dollar softened slightly against the yen and euro; Treasury yields crept upward for shorter maturities while the 30-year bond bobbed up and down.

But for months now, the Libor has been creeping upward.

"We're three years into a recovery and the poverty rate is creeping upward.

The first comprehensive zoning legislation was adopted in N.Y. in 1916, when the city was beginning to creep upward.

Schoenberg's reputation with the public has followed a different curve, one that is slowly creeping upward.

The E.C.B.'s biggest worry is that, despite the initial market response, borrowing costs will creep upward.