Sentence examples for passed up from from inspiring English sources

In Brooklyn, 51percentt passed, up from 42percentt.

And in the Bronx, 42percentt passed, up from 34percentt last year.

In Queens, 58percentt of students passed, up from 48percentt.

In Manhattan, 46percentt of students passed, up from 37percentt.

Among eighth graders, 5percentt passed, up from about 1percentt in 2003.

At Greenville, 86 percent had passed, up from 71percentt last year; still, at Seely, 98percentt passed, compared with 83percentt last year.

Every summer, the whale wave passes up from the fjord's outer channels to its innermost waters, overlapping with different portions of the proposed tanker routes as it goes.

They flaunted fire- and police-department shirts, and they happily wore the hats passed up to the stage from the audience.

From top left: the Soul Sleeve, which is just about as cute as possible; a dyed felt case from MaricFineGoods (also available in mustard yellow); a case from PinsnNeedles that is actually for e-readers but was too cool to pass up; another from PinsnNeedles that kind of looks like an elephant.

Andrew Olson, a graduate of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, passed up offers from both start-ups and from Sun Microsystems.

A journalism major, he passed up offers from four professional football teams to become a reporter for The Milwaukee Journal.