Sentence examples for how much preferred from inspiring English sources

I didn't ask for a peek at Warren Buffett's portfolio: in order not to know how much preferred stock he acquired in Goldman Sachs I would have to confine my periodical reading to National Geographic.

But it does not explain how much those preferred investors may have known about their special status.

Many online commentators in this socially networked nation said how much they preferred the 2010 tune Waka Waka by Shakira.

What was surprising about this tasting was how much we preferred the cheap wines over the high-end bottles.

The French novelist Michel Houellebecq, who has the great gift of fearlessness, once wrote about how much he preferred Russia to France: for all the poverty and corruption, the teen-agers were still filled with raw optimism and energy.

After all, for some people a will is not just a list of bequests; it's a chance to leave a loved-one a final thoughtful gesture, or show a hopeful relative how much you preferred the dog to them.

Last year a student told me, in front of his classmates, how much he preferred America's system of electing the national legislature.

By early afternoon Friday, Shakira's "Waka Waka" had become a trending topic on Twitter in Brazil, as locals said how much they preferred her catchy 2010 FIFA World Cup theme song.

We identified five main themes: Patients differed as to how much they preferred to be involved in information and choice of treatment.

This finding strongly suggests that the observers in Experiment 4 were indeed rating how much they preferred the figural colors in the present task rather than how much they liked the figure-ground pairs as wholes.

The household heads were asked whether, during the next six months, they were willing to spend some money to improve their home safety, and if so, how much they preferred to spend?