Sentence examples for up from a few from inspiring English sources

An estimated 1m are now resident in Africa, up from a few thousand a decade ago, and more keep arriving.

Those companies now employ about 8,600 people at their operations in Southern California, up from a few hundred a decade ago.

He puts his side two up from a few yards out.

By 2014, the mayor said, the program should reach more than 100,000 households, up from a few thousand now.

There are already about 16,000 public charging stations in the United States, up from a few hundred in 2010.

Just before taking off, the boy's father stood up from a few aisles away and mentioned casually to me, "Just warning you.

That's up from $5bn a few months previously, up from $1.5bn a few months before that.

"I knew I was playing catch-up from a few months ago and to be honest I didn't expect to be here four months ago," said Greene.

"I knew I was playing catch-up from a few months ago and to be honest I didn't expect to be here four months ago," added Greene.

"If you take off management fees, travelling, maybe playing a little bit of catch-up from a few years before, a tax bill here and there, the odd holiday, it's not an incredible amount of money when you are used to living that lifestyle," said Clague.

Allen & Overy now gets 22% of its revenue from such places, up from 15% a few years ago.