Dic: upward of, upwards of

• projects worth upwards of 200 million pounds.
• It costs upward of $40,000 a year to keep some prisoners in prison.
• the onslaught of upwards of seventy divisions. (Winston S. Churchill).

1. PREP-PHRASE : PREP amount | A quantity that is upwards of a particular number is more than that number.
2. More than; in excess of:

... Cobuild, The American Heritage