Sentence examples for preferred to zero from inspiring English sources

For the purposes of labour supply modeling this group is assumed to reveal, by stating that they are searching for work, that some positive hours state is preferred to zero.

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".

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.

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

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

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.

But South preferred to try five diamonds, which East happily doubled.