The phrase "a consistent preference for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a stable or enduring inclination towards something over time.
Example: "The study revealed a consistent preference for organic products among consumers, indicating a shift in buying habits."
Alternatives: "a steady inclination towards" or "a reliable tendency for".
He also displayed a consistent preference for force over diplomacy in dealing with the Arabs.
What they found was that some females had a consistent preference for red males and some for blue males.
This differs somewhat from cladograms in biology textbooks (Catley and Novick 2008), which found a consistent preference for angled over rectangular diagrams (55%) across grade levels.
The calculations showed that, at all alloy compositions and temperatures, Co, Tc, Ru, Rh, Re, Os, Ir and Pt have a consistent preference for the Ni sublattice, while Ti, Zr, Nb, Hf and Ta have a consistent preference for the Al sublattice.
Despite these miniscule variations, the flies showed a consistent preference for one arm of the maze over the other, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggesting that the flies could tell the difference between the odorants.
In fact, the Obama administration has shown a consistent preference for conservative policy proposals -- ones that don't throw the baby out with the bathwater but rather leave already existing structures in place, but reform them subtly.
Calculations at T = 1273 K again showed a consistent preference of Pt for the Ni sublattice in Al-rich, Ni-rich and stoichiometric B2 NiAl.
The second movement leads, often without pause, into the finale, or last movement, and the finale has shown a more consistent preference for the rondo design.
During the last half-century, South Dakota has always had at least one Democratic senator or representative, a confusing tendency given the state's consistent preference for Republicans in elections of presidents and governors.
However, a strand bias can't explain the consistent preference for one base over the other.
A number of other studies have investigated the trait in great apes, but "true" handedness the consistent preference for one hand at the population level across a wide range of behaviors is thought to be unique to humans.
