Sentence examples for need upward from inspiring English sources

The transformation is so pervasive that the authors -- rightly, for the most part -- think they need upward of 300 pages to explain how these groups will be affected.

Re "Teacher Salaries Are Said to Lag Behind Inflation" (National Briefing item, May 17): Amid all the talk of student testing, accountability and "educational standards," the fact remains that we need upward of a million new teachers in the next few years and, with a few exceptions, little is being done to recruit them.

Therefore, the HADS cut-off points may need upward revision, perhaps to ≥9 and ≥14 for depression, and ≥10 and ≥16 for anxiety.

All told, the site needs upward of six million cubic yards of dredge, experts said.

A golf course on land that dry needs upward of half a million gallons of fresh water a day to stay green, unless it has an awful lot of sand traps.

Sir: Many of us were "persuaded" to retire early because the boomers needed upward mobility and we stood in their career path.

By 1998 Cem, who ran the business with his brother Hakan, needed upward of $500 million to acquire a second cellular license.

"Everybody knew the poor needed upward mobility, but nobody was sure how to do it.

It essentially creates short term global cross-country assignments for their high-potential women so that hey can gain the kind of international experience they need for upward mobility.

Instead of a top-down global target set by scientific analysis, distributed between countries according to some formula of equity, countries will make their own bottom-up commitments, which may or may not - in fact, do not - achieve the global goal they have themselves agreed, so will need constant upward pressure to be revised.

Another system, called the Q-BOP, uses no top lance at all, blowing oxygen, burnt-lime powder, and, when needed, argon upward through the liquid melt from several gas-cooled or oil-cooled bottom tuyeres.