Sentence examples for first preference for from inspiring English sources

Spiderlings exhibited a significant first preference for the original diet.

"The first preference for everybody in labor is the original bill," he said.

Almost 1,000 people have put St Ives as their first preference for a home.

This morning, I actually voted for Andy Burnham as my first preference for Labour leader.

A poll by YouGov for The Times found Corbyn was the first preference for 43% of party supporters – way ahead of bookies' favourite Andy Burnham on 26%.

This said: "Selective schools are almost 50% more popular than non-selective schools when comparing a parent's first preference for their child".

At its crudest, the word on the doorsteps will be that unionist first preferences for Mr Nicholson and the Ulster Unionists will put grave-robbers in government.

More than 1.1 million people cast their second preference for a candidate with no chance of being in the run-off for the final two.

Len McCluskey, leader of Unite, will, over the weekend, be writing to his members who are signed up reiterating the union's official position, which is a vote for Corbyn and a second preference for Burnham.

It will, in other words, end up being of equal value to him in his head-to-head with Johnson – just as a second preference for Johnson will be to him in relation to Livingstone.

A second preference vote is only likely to influence the result in any way if the first vote is for a candidate unlikely to win (such as the Greens' Jenny Jones, or Liberal Democrat candidate Brian Paddick), and the second preference for one of the top two.