Upwards used in a sentence

Upwards in a sentence as an adverb

I admire this guy's talent at failing upwards.

It's not really possible to fail upwards this way. It would be like forgetting how to play chess in the middle of a game and then winning.

Word on the street is that Google had upwards of 1,200 employees working on the G+ project. Fully burdened, that's something like $250-300m/year.

Even though it was difficult and painful, building Snailmailr gave my career a huge upwards kick. I hope to try again and have ideas all the time ...

People like this are needed when you have upwards of 50,000 people working in your facility. - a $100,000/year theft problem is worthy of most people's attention.

The guy giving the talk played upwards of two dozen mp3s, a dozen or so movie trailers, the GL teapot thing, etc. simultanously.

- Assange stayed in Sweden upwards of a month and did participate in questioning. He left after the case was supposedly dropped and he was told, in response to his question, that he was free to travel abroad.

When you're serving upwards of a petabyte per month, 23 GB isn't exactly a lot! > On the other hand, if saving single bytes was significant, there would be a lot more potential in the source by shortening CSS class names etc.

The app crashes when I search chat history, can take upwards of 90+% of my CPU, literally forcing me to shut down every other application I have running. The forums are full of complaints, all unanswered.

Harmonization" somehow always ratchets upwards, never downwards. No one said to Germany: don't ratchet your copyright term upwards, keep it harmonized.

If AirBnB became a serious economic force in NYC, it would only make my outrageously expensive city more expensive as apartment rents converged upwards towards hotel rates. 3.

Before Amazon changed their pricing to introduce the per-request fees, I knew people who were making upwards of 50 million S3 requests per day -- mostly PUTs -- while paying only a few dollars a month. The introduction of per-request fees quickly extinguished that usage case, by pushing the cost upwards by a factor of a thousand...

Internally we have accounts with upwards of 100G of mail still being very usable, so we know Gmail scales. Also we have quite a few people internally focusing specifically on finding and fixing these types of problems so that eventually it won't matter how many clients you have or how large your mailbox is, but these things take time.

I suspect that many homebuyers in SF are doing the irresponsible thing of squeezing into a home by spending upwards of 40%, even 50+% of their income on mortgage payments instead of the usually fiscally responsible number of ~30%. And this is punishing everyone and sucking the soul from the city.

Resident physicians in particular would probably lead better lives if in fact there were something like a union to limit hospitals and training programs that have traditionally worked these young physicians upwards of 100 hours a week for what amounts to minimum wage. Resident physician hours and primary care doc hours are still onerous, and most are paying education debut averaging $150,000.