Would you prefer my doing it on Saturday?" To which Next-Door Nelson might reply: "Well, that's not a perfect solution, but preferable to Sunday.
But that is surely preferable to Thursday when the Senate leader, Eric Abetz, the environment minister, Greg Hunt, manager of government business in the Senate, Mitch Fifield, and their advisers were hammering out the fate of the carbon tax repeal bills with Clive Palmer, his senators and the other crossbenchers in a corridor with a posse of journalists watching.
"April Fool's Day is always preferable to Friday the 13th.
In addition, some recent studies have suggested that distributed lag models (DLMs) that allow differential PM mortality effects spread over multiple days may be preferable to single-day or multiple-day moving average PM exposure measures (Schwartz 2000; Smith et al. 2000).
What could possibly be preferable to a day with your children that you thought you might not have?
The 95% rate of adherence is preferable to 4-day recall data.
Yet, there are many times when feedforward is preferable to feedback in day-to-day interactions.
However long it may take cryptos to emerge as a preferable day-to-day currency, these past few years, they have made the dollar's guardians realize that that day may well come, perhaps later, or perhaps sooner.
We hypothesized that, given the outpatient nature of azacitidine treatment, a 5-day regimen would be preferable to a 7-day regimen, while providing similar efficacy.
Even with all the new amenities, and the more comfortable (if significantly more expensive) experience flying business class rather than coach, a long-haul flight for a half-day meeting is not always preferable to a typical day at the office -- and sleeping in one's own bed.
A wedding on a Friday night or Saturday afternoon of a holiday weekend is preferable to one on a Sunday or a Monday (which presents problems for those who have to work Tuesday, or have to travel long distances).
