The phrase "a substantial preference for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a strong inclination or liking for something over another option.
Example: "The survey results indicated a substantial preference for online learning among students compared to traditional classroom settings."
Alternatives: "a strong preference for" or "a significant inclination towards".
But while Pew says that voter views were broadly socialistic in the 1930s, its surveys indicate where American preferences actually fell:[W]hen asked if they had to make the choice would they opt for fascism or communism, the public expressed a substantial preference for fascism (39%) over communism (25%), while 36% offered no opinion.
As expected from the previous experiment, larvae appear indifferent after 1 min, but after 2 min and in particular after 4 min, a substantial preference for glucose is apparent.
At the level of physiological function, it should be added that those cyclohexadienyl dehydrogenases that exhibit a very substantial preference for prephenate are for all practical purposes prephenate dehydrogenases, even though they carry a formal designation of TyrAc or TyrAc_Δ.
It was found that farmers have no substantial preference for whether the pasture grazing program is financed by the food industry, a governmental scheme, or the dairy company.
AMBER-99SB shows a much lower helical content over this timescale than these helix-friendly force fields, along with substantial preference for turn and coil conformations.
The first segment has a very strong preference for the investment program having the largest total reduction in traffic deaths; the second segment assigns a substantial value to an equal distribution of reductions of traffic deaths across the Netherlands.
These findings may reflect the sequence and ligand flexibility noted among the CRP/FNR protein family (Gomelsky, 2011), as well as the substantial preference (>60-fold) of XC_0249 for binding cyclic GMP rather than cyclic AMP.
Their preferences ranged from 5 × 10 to 7 × 10, lower than that for AP but still substantial, indicating that metal ions and a high preponderance of formal positive charge within the active site are not required to achieve a strong catalytic preference for phosphate monoester over sulfate monoester hydrolysis.
However, substantial preference heterogeneity existed.
RMOR mice initially favoured morphine more than WT mice (p < 0.01), and a substantial fraction, 40%, showed an outright preference for morphine over saccharin compared to only 12% of WTs.
