With exports strong, the business is moving onwards and upwards.onwardson‧wards /ˈɒnwədz $ ˈɑːnwərdz, ˈɒːn-/ ●○○ (also onward American English) adverb 
from the 1980s onwards2 literary forwards: He walked onwards to the head of the lake.3onwards and upwards used to say that the development, increase, or progress of something continues: With exports strong, the business is moving onwards and upwards.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- After eighty yards we came to the rails and sleepers themselves under a foot of water leading onwards into the blackness.
- By the time it had been persuaded onwards the victoria was out of sight.
- From birth onwards, male mortality rates exceeded those of females.
- From the middle of the eighteenth century onwards a growing chorus of voices had championed the creation of a professional police.
- He cursed, and spurred his long-suffering mount onwards again.
- He loosed the brakes and the jeep rolled onwards.
- His need was to exist, and to move onwards at the greatest possible risk, and with a maximum of privation.
- Instead, the combined amount payable from next April will be £19.40 for the first child and £18.65 for the second onwards.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY With exports strong, the business is moving onwards and upwards.
With exports strong, the business is moving onwards and upwards.PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1from ... onwards beginning at a particular time or age and continuing after that: - At St-Denis, from 867 onwards, Charles himself was lay-abbot.
- From that day onwards I entertained a high regard for his dexterity and skill in public affairs.
- From the 1970s onwards governments restricted aggregate demand by a variety of means.
- From then onwards, Winterthur's development into the city of today was rapid.
- From this point onwards, attitudes to El Cid were divided.
- It shows the decline in the percentage of the Gross Domestic Product devoted to Defence from 1946 onwards.
- Its ancestors served abroad from the 1630s onwards, and the tradition of foreign service continues today.
- The Brackley blooms are brought out early with a little help from 400 watt lamps sunning them from January onwards.
- After the last recession ended, unemployment climbed onwards and upwards for another five years.
- And set off, onwards and upwards.
from the 1980s onwards2 literary forwards: He walked onwards to the head of the lake.3onwards and upwards used to say that the development, increase, or progress of something continues: With exports strong, the business is moving onwards and upwards.