Sentence examples for it was upward from inspiring English sources

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.

"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.

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.

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

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

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.

Within a couple of years it was trending upward again.

As the warm, moist air hit the Catskills and other mountains, it was forced upward, what meteorologists call upslope flow.

From there, it was all upward — as a supervisor, then starting his own companies in West Hartford.

Luria's then-pessimistic prediction for the company's shares price was $14 (it was still upward of $20 at that point).