Sentence examples for well upwards of from inspiring English sources

Now that the musical "Billy Elliot" is taking in well upwards of $1 million a week, couldn't audience members who spend $4 at the Imperial Theater for a 16.9-ounce bottle of water get a nice brand of spring water rather than something called Niagara Purified Drinking Water?

Another owner here in Manorhaven, Sal Cataldi, said prices ranged from $30,000 for a small weather-beaten craft powered by an outboard engine, to well upwards of $100,000 for what is essentially a cottage — or a chalet or a ranch — mounted on a barge that must be towed into place.

The upshot is that the only people who should consider visiting Paris right now are those who don't mind spending well upwards of $1,000 per day.

The legacy LNG IUS product, Mirena, currently sells for well upwards of $400 in the United States, which would be prohibitively expensive for public-sector provision in low-income countries.

Relative to Apple's revenues, which could well total upwards of $150 billion this year, a $10 billion dividend payout is small beer.

And when he wins a purse, he's off to the pro shop, where you can buy him name-brand clubs and balls, as well as upwards of 800 different clothing items, sunglasses, watches and other accessories, many of them virtual facsimiles of products for sale today at your local mall.

It may well be that upwards of £450 million worth of art will be sold in London this coming week, and that Sotheby's and Christie's will set new European sale records.

For example, a condo bought for $100,000 in 1996 could very well sell for upwards of $300,000 today.

Joseph says that cost stacks up well against the upwards of $100,000 a business might need to shell out to install a full sensor-based lighting control system.

They were paid well too: sometimes upwards of $1500/month, in a country where GDP per capita hovers around $650.

A hedge fund might conjecture it could bring its investors — often well-heeled types paying upwards of 2% in fees just to get in on the game — returns that could be double that.