Sentence examples for it's upward from inspiring English sources

That's just the way the film industry works—it's a minimum 12-hour day, and when you're shooting, it's upward of 15 or 16 hours, and you're doing it for weeks at a time.

"It's upward mobility," Jerry Leiber said.

If you look at the long-term temperature trend in the Arctic, it's upward, and if you look at the long-term volume trend, it's downward.

If there is an escalator, place the cane on the moving area to determine if it's upward or downward.

Though neither Mr. Sigel nor one of his associates, Steve Karadja, 53, would disclose exactly how much cash they routinely carried with them in their backpacks, they indicated it was upward of $10,000.

While neither Mr. Marron nor Glenn D. Lowry, the Modern's director, would disclose the gift's value, contemporary art experts believe it to be upward of $15 million.

When we talk about retirement, it could be upward of 20 or 30 years.

It's an upward spiral cycle; if you keep it up, you'll find after a while that you are on top of the world!

Then it's onward, upward – and fast forward.

Here's a currency backed by debt so massive that it will presumably have to be inflated away some day — and it's rocketing upward.

It's the upward mobility story — about a person who worked hard and contributes profoundly to society, but who also sacrificed things along the way.