Sentence examples for had preferred over from inspiring English sources
Hence, in this setup, all four females in each group had the opportunity to try to switch to a male they had preferred over their assigned partner.
The analyses we report here show that many of the relatively small number of scales that humans have preferred over history and across cultures comprise intervals that when considered as a set are maximally similar to harmonic series.
Andrew Zimmern, a celebrity chef who had preferred Just Mayo over Hellmann's in a blind taste-test, even started an online petition to urge Unilever to drop the lawsuit.
If Mr. Holt maintains his lead and returns to Washington in January, he will have solidified his hold on a district that until recently had preferred Republican legislators over Democrats.
Dickinson seems to have preferred "instant" over "sudden" in later drafts of the poem, but when it appeared in the second edition of her work, edited by Todd and Higginson, a comma materialized in the spot where the question mark had gone.
Products such as butter have been replaced by plant-based margarines and cooking oils, while chicken has been preferred over pork.
Established foreign banks have preferred to take over customers or businesses from other foreign banks that want to leave.
Surely any military commander would have preferred them over firearms.
"Americans always have preferred education over the welfare state as a means for balancing the equality implicit in citizenship and the inequality implicit in markets".
Treasury officials have preferred persuasion over retaliation, hoping to convince China that a higher-valued renminbi is in its own interests as it seeks to increase domestic demand.
