Villagers may for instance prefer local tanks and wells to 'improved' government-supplied piped water.
How could Robert Penn Warren, for instance, prefer Kit Morton's plain dying-grandmother story to Lance Leavitt's stream-of-consciousness monologue from the viewpoint of a condemned man smoking his last cigarette while pouring daringly profane contempt over the judgment of a world that punishes you for one measly murder while ignoring the murder of millions?
Some of my friends, for instance, prefer to set goals by category: finances, relationships, work, self-work and so on.
An Ambrose Bierce Companion (2001), for instance, prefers Gwinnett.
Literally, often: she won't come out at Christmas, for instance, preferring to stay in and watch box sets.
The yellow fever mosquito, for instance, prefers the hot and humid climate in Florida and the southeastern part of the country.
Citicorp, for instance, prefers to lend on hardware it can repossess and sell in a pinch, "because, really, at the end of the day, software is worth nothing," said Sally Wunsch, a saleswoman with Citicorp's commercial financing division in New York.
Treating an artist right, Mr. Lockwood said, can go a long way toward ensuring a return visit -- the pianist George Winston, for instance, prefers to rehearse from midnight till dawn, so the staff makes sure he can get into the theater then.
MacGregor, for instance, prefers to buy experiences, she said.
Yoann, for instance, prefers to go out with his friends on Thursday night, because after Thursday there is only one working day left in the week.
The artists of the Northern Renaissance, for instance, preferred to paint naked women with elegant, slender and tapering, small-breasted bodies: just look, for example, at the way that Lucas Cranach the Elder depicted Eve before the Tree of Knowledge in a panel of 1526 now in the Courtauld Gallery in London.
