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Upwards of 70 percent of U.S. couples are cohabiting these days before marrying, the researchers estimate.
研究者预计，目前超过70%的美国夫妇婚前同居。
This new outbreak in Nigeria has occurred because upwards of 20% of children remain unimmunized in key high-risk areas for polio in the north of the country.
尼日利亚暴发新疫情的原因是，在该国北部主要的脊髓灰质炎高风险地区，有20%以上的儿童尚未接种此疫苗。
According to the Center for Food Safety: "upwards of 70 percent of processed foods on supermarket shelves -- from soda to soup, crackers to condiments -- contain genetically-engineered ingredients.
根据食品安全中心的数据：“超市货架上70%以上的加工食品——从苏打饮料到汤料，饼干到调味品——都含有转基因原料。”

The most serious occurred in 1918 when upwards of 50 million people are believed to have died.
The argument that eliminates strategies 67 and above, or 68 upwards, that strategy just involves the first lesson of last time: do not choose a dominated strategy, admittedly weak here, but still.
剔除67以上或者68以上的过程,仅仅用到了上堂课所提到的第一个结论,即不要采用劣势策略,虽然这里是弱劣势,但同理
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Nowadays,many people here are ready to spend upwards of $6 for a movie ticket.

It is also expensive, some couriers charging upwards of 3 percent for the service.
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