north of

idiomatic phrase

of a number or value

: greater than

Auburn coach Bruce Pearl earned north of $3.9 million this season …—

Tom Green

Fighting as he is now to keep his approval rating north of 40%, November 2009 probably looks to Obama like the good old days.—

Elias Isquith

Cognacs of similar quality typically go north of $100.—

Jack Bettridge

compare south of

Examples of north of in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web However, The New York Times marked the national park, 30 miles north of the Welsh capital, Cardiff, as one of the best places to visit in 2024. —

Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024 Romero is the daughter of immigrants and the first Mexican-American woman to be elected mayor of Tucson, a city that lies just 60 miles north of Mexico. —

Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 26 Sep. 2024 There’s never a wrong time of year to visit the Berkshires, the mountainous stretch of western Massachusetts located just 140 miles north of New York City. —

Oset Babür-Winter, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2024 Three people were wounded and several houses were damaged by fire and shrapnel in the town just north of Haifa. —

NBC News, 25 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for north of

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