"a little preference" is a grammatically correct phrase and is often used in written English.
For example, you might say: "I have a little preference for dark chocolate over milk chocolate."
Furthermore, by including the data set frequencies as a fifth component, sites that show little preference for a restricted amino acid profile, but evolve according to the exchangeabilities of the JTT matrix can be accommodated.
Some transposable elements exhibit a high degree of integration specificity, while others display relatively little preference for a target DNA sequence [ 28, 29].
These combine to make a very hydrophobic P9 pocket and little preference for charged or polar peptide residues at P9.
For the sequences derived from the active clones, strong preference was observed at position 1 (for G) and, to a lesser extent, at position 2, whereas little preference was observed at the remaining positions.
Across all subjects, r took on relatively large values in the first trials, indicating the subject's belief in a "flat" prior; e.g. the subject's displayed little preference for initially believing the coins would appear in any expected location.
The Class III agent dronedarone inhibits WT IhERG in a manner that indicates contingency on channel gating, with little preference for activated over inactivated channel states [29].
People from Finland — which has a relatively small gap between the rich and the poor — showed little preference for swerving one way or the other.
In practice, Ivy League admissions demonstrate little preference for poor and working-class students.
We found that for the smaller-diameter set, for near-Z edges the Klein structure, in which a normal zigzag edge has an extra C atom (blue in Fig. 2b) attached to each hexagon42, is favored over the standard closed-hexagons, whereas the larger-diameter set shows little preference either way.
