The phrase "an alternative preference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different choices or options that someone may prefer over others.
Example: "In this situation, we should consider an alternative preference that aligns better with our goals."
Alternatives: "a different choice" or "another option".
As an alternative, preference-based instruments are increasingly used in clinical studies and population surveys to generate utility scores [ 4].
Voters rank the candidates on an alternative-preference ballot.
A number of alternative preference assessment methods may be considered.
The Mayor's alternative preference, for expansion at Stansted, had been dismissed for "flimsy reasons".
An alternative revealed preference characterisation of the Gorman Polar Form can be found in work in progress by Brown and Shannon.
These alternative preferences have a significant impact in predicting the risk of insertional gene activation of retroviral gene transfer vectors.
Any film or actor that gets a fifth of the first-place votes is nominated automatically, and the rest are chosen by considering alternative preferences.
As he stands such little chance of being eliminated, it does not matter much whether first-choice Corbyn voters state alternative preferences.
And so, Lars' contribution has been in developing these methods, pushing them, and also developing methods about what we call alternative preferences, where people are afraid of not knowing the environment they are living in.
This can be understood as a particularly problematic combination of the previous two criticisms [1, 2] wherein Alexander's personal preferences become the only objective standard of beauty, and anyone with alternative preferences is dismissed as suffering some form of 'mental defect' (Alexander and Eisenman 1982).
37 Models can inform decision makers of the impact of such alternative preferences.
