1. The meeting was attended by upwards of 500 people.

2. Upwards of a hundred people came to the meeting.

3. Upwards of fifty thousand people assembled in the main square.

4. She caught a clear view upwards of the spotlit temple.

5. You can expect to pay upwards of ￡200 a night at this exclusive hotel.

6. You should expect to pay upwards of £40 for a hotel room.

7. Nestl are reputed to spend upwards of $ 60 million every year on marketing Nescaf in Britain.

8. But in the same period upwards of 10,000 executions were ordered against the bodies of defendants.

9. Storage accommodation had to be designed to accommodate upwards of 10,000 items used in these repairs.

10. Assynt is a good salmon loch with upwards of sixty fish being caught most seasons.

11. Upwards of ￡40 there were the landowners, or gentry, though a good many below this point might have been counted as gentlemen.

12. Not that this dissuades upwards of 800 competitors from entering the event.

13. Spring's vast fortune comprised upwards of 40 percent of the combined assets of the Babergh clothiers.

14. It costs upwards of ￡300 a week to keep some one in residential care.

15. U.S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents.

16. The loss is estimated to reach upwards of 30000 yuan.

17. When finished in 426, the voluminous work contained some twenty-two books and upwards of 1000 pages.

18. Then there are the lucky few who, every now and then, would splash out upwards of ￡1,000 on a single fish.

19. Foremost among provincial towns were a handful of regional capitals with populations upwards of five or six thousand.

20. Wealthy people paid a large proportion of the taxes, however, and there was a levelling upwards of income.

21. Or Kevin and Ian Maxwell, who walked free after a trial costing upwards of ￡25 million?

22. It looks down imperiously towards Staveley, where the vast ironworks used to employ upwards of four thousand men.

23. This is understandable, considering drug research can take 20 years and cost upwards of ￡200 million.

24. You know my Wednesday night soup deal has got so it draws upwards of thirty or more at a time.

25. The Bible has noble poetry in it... And some good morals and a wealth of obscenity(/upwards of.html), and upwards of a thousand lies. Mark Twain 

26. Similarly, testicular cancer once claimed 95 percent of its victims; today upwards of 95 percent survive.

27. The 77-year-old hedge-fund supremo and slayer of sterling has nothing to prove financially (he is worth upwards of $8 billion).

28. The report also found that smokestack scrubbers and other equipment, which accounted for upwards of one-third of total plant expenses to operate, were idled to save costs.

29. Groupon's SEC filing indiates that the company still plans to raise upwards of another $450 million, which it first disclosed via an ammended certificate of incorporation.

30. We were there for the Cork Jazz Festival, which draws upwards of 40, 000 visitors every autumn.

31. But rights groups say that upwards of 1,000 Hmong are still being hunted by government forces.

32. Within the botanical gardens were ancient pine trees upwards of 10,000 years old.