north ofとは 意味・読み方・使い方

前置詞

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, 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.

   • 2025 August 2, Anna Gross, quoting Zia Yusuf, “Lunch with the FT: Zia Yusuf”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 18:

     “ […] Nigel used the word ‘invasion’ for a long time and got a huge amount of stick but…north of 160,000 men arriving on our beaches, the majority of them fighting-age men, I don't know what else you call that,” he says, referring to the total number of men, women and children who have arrived by small boat in the past seven years.

   • 2025 August 7, Jonathan Lemire, “Things Aren’t Going Donald Trump’s Way”, in The Atlantic‎:

     In an interview with CNBC on Tuesday, he insisted that he has “the best poll numbers I’ve ever had,” claiming that his approval was north of 70 percent.