The phrase "a preference to use" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing a choice or inclination towards a particular method or option.
Example: "She has a preference to use renewable energy sources for her home."
Alternatives: "a tendency to use" or "a liking for using".
Tactically, Sweden may not be that different from Australia, who showed a keen ability to move the up the field through tight spaces, and a preference to use speed to counter-attack.
Administration officials spoke of a "preference" to use the military to conduct lethal operations, but said that Mr. Obama's hands would not be tied and that he reserved the right to use the C.I.A. for covert drone strikes in far-off countries.
Publishers started to voice a preference to use the integrated e-commerce opportunities but not as overtly as is currently offered.
Contemporary treatments assume that the inability to downregulate negative emotional arousal is a key problem in the development and maintenance of psychopathology and that lack of effective regulation efforts and a preference to use maladaptive regulation strategies is a primary mechanism.
Many species of soil microbes have a preference to use glucose as a carbon (C) source compared to phenolic compounds [10], [11].
Surprisingly, 9.5% of the women with a planned home birth indicated a preference to use medicinal pain relief, even though this is never administered at home.
27 In recent qualitative studies in the area, caretakers reported a preference to using Western antimicrobial and antimotility drugs over fluid-based medicines, which are not as effective in stopping diarrhea.
"The message we are offering is comfort and making you sleep better.... it is a personal preference to use a weighted blanket," they said.
Company employed authors had a reduced chance of first authorship (10%), which might reflect a company preference to use well known clinicians as first authors.
Task 1, the most complex exercise involving retrieval of a food treat from an empty jar, encouraged the most apparent display of lateralized behaviour, with all but one animal showing a strong preference to use either their left or right paw consistently.
The results show that whereas right-handers exhibited a strong preference to use their dominant right hand to grasp the objects, left-handers did not show this preference and instead used their right hand 50% of the time [8], [9].
