'upwards' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the direction that is towards a higher point or a higher level. Example sentence: The arrow pointed upwards, indicating the goal was at the top of the hill.
The wine, which can be found in shops and restaurants around London, including Noble Fine Liquor on Broadway Market (the label is an arrow pointing upwards), is extraordinary.
There are dozens of schools offering every possible permutation of tuition and course, from a three-hour try-out upwards (from beginner to winner, as they say), as well as shops selling and renting equipment.
Reports suggest an extra 250,000 primary places are needed this year, and with land costs escalating in inner cities and budgets shrinking, fulfilling the need will be difficult, but it is right to say that it should not be done by allowing class sizes to creep upwards.
The solid gold Apple Watch Edition, which retails for upwards of £8,000, was particularly hit, with some models being so backordered that they have an expected delivery date of August (since then, the Edition supply problems seem to have been sorted, and gold lovers can pick one up for June delivery).
"Not to be disrespectful – I'm not saying that everyone who leaves here is a loser – but the ones we bring in have to be ones who want to achieve and move upwards.
Labour gained 338 seats in the elections and took control of six more councils, but a good result would have seen it gain upwards of 500.
Some shacks are double-storied, with a ladder leading upwards.
Most Guinean children do not attend school, those that do sit in makeshift classrooms with upwards of 85 other children.
That was mostly because of the huge slip in the Lib Dem vote in the South West, where the Greens made an extra seat with an upwards swing of just two percentage points.
Alleging that he paid unusually low interest rates on the borrowings, she said: "Mr O'Brien was enjoying a rate of approximately 1.25% when IBRC could, and arguably should, have been charging 7.5% [on] sums of upwards of €500m [£360m]".
Osborne moved to set the terms of the 2015 general election as he confirmed that the Office for Budget Responsibility had revised its forecast for economic growth upwards.
