north of

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north of

  1. (idiomatic) more, higher or greater than
    • 2011, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts, The failure of the FiReControl project: fiftieth report of session 2010-12, report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence, The Stationery Office, →ISBN, page 10:
      We have a programme where north of half a billion pounds has been wasted, and has already gone through three programme directors before yourself, and five senior responsible owners.
    • 2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 5, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation[1], 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 98:
      The holo display leapt up, shaping itself this time into the form of an asari seated at a desk. A little on the stocky side, deeper blue skin than most, average ageless beauty, although Cora knew she was somewhere north of six hundred years old.
    • 2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 56:
      Population 39,693 (just north of 115,000 today), Cheltenham has been overtaken by Gloucester in terms of headcount.

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