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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a majority prefer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the preferences or choices of a larger group of people in a survey or study context.
Example: "In the recent survey, a majority prefer online shopping over traditional retail."
Alternatives: "most people favor" or "the majority choose".
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Professor Hazell notes that most Britons who support the monarchy – still a majority – prefer it that way, a hereditary monarchy where tradition prevails, not the Dutch bicycling-and-abdicating model.
Yet despite the referendum results – which the government claims were invalid due to an opposition smear campaign directed by Washington – it is unclear that a majority prefer the alternative.
As Gallup explained in a report last November, that support has declined gradually over the last two decades to the point that a "record low 44%" now support stricter gun laws, while a majority prefer laws that are kept as they are currently (42%) or made less strict (12%).
"But the fact of the matter is that on every issue that's important to middle-class Americans, overwhelmingly we're seeing a majority prefer the Democratic option, and us having a Democratic Senate that can present those issues and put them forward just like they did on immigration, even if the House Republicans failed to act, means that we're debating the right stuff for the country".
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A majority preferred the transparent and slower site.
"Yet a majority preferred having a navigation screen — they felt anxious without it".
A majority preferred a cut in spending to increased taxes, though the margin by which they did so varies.
Two central bank policy makers pushed for more stimulus last month, while a majority preferred to wait for a clearer economic outlook.
$A$ isn't one because a majority prefers something else, $C$.
When a majority prefers one approach, it becomes law -- until another majority later decides it prefers something else and votes in a different law to replace it.
On most other issues, including the two that voters most often said they want candidates to talk about — healthcare and immigration — a majority preferred Democrats.
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