Sentence examples for preferred to three from inspiring English sources

Using a common reference was preferred to three separate controls attempting to match the composition of each pool, as such matching on morphological criteria is very difficult on late stages, if not impossible.

Other Shakespearean references to Claudius ("my offence is rank") and Shylock (carrion flesh preferred to three thousand ducats), and the on-screen testimony of human rights lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith, are less powerful, but support the point about the commercial dealing in humanity that is then served up as this main cookery course.

The faces of the cube are squares composed of four elemental isosceles right-angled triangles and again, it is not clear why four should be preferred to two.

In 'good prognosis' patients according to IGCCCG (Table 4), three cycles of BEP were preferred to four cycles of EP [ 33, 34].

Joseph wrote a detailed description of the drying process, concluding: "A house constructed with such boards I prefer to one of brick and stone".

Of these 24 women, the majority preferred to stay three (38%) or four nights (38%).

Mario preferred to play one on one, as Andrew recalled at his father's funeral.

She'd have preferred to be five feet ten, to walk with a swagger, with sexual confidence.

Two Are Enough Traditionalists in the N.F.L. have long preferred to keep three quarterbacks on their rosters.

He had been drafted out of Louisville, but Coach Walt Kiesling preferred to keep three other quarterbacks: Jim Finks, Ted Marchibroda and Vic Eaton.

Webster began revising the King James when he was threescore and ten, or what he preferred to call seventy.