The phrase "preponderance over" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to mean having a greater weight or strength than something else. Example sentence: The preponderance over other candidates helped him land the job.
One is, of course, Russia's military preponderance over its small neighbour.
Increasing economic ties to Saudi Arabia "will play some role in gradually eroding American preponderance over that country, but this is not a very elaborate and conscious objective of China's relationship with Saudi Arabia," Mr. Shi said.
If the U.S. then seemed a colossus standing astride the world, Eurasia still remained "the globe's most important playing field... with preponderance over the entire Eurasian continent serving as the central basis for global primacy".
In our present study, we did not detect even minimal amounts of 2-hydroxylated estrogens, which clearly supports the obvious preponderance of 16α-over 2-hydroxylated estrogens.
The resulting preponderance of discordant pairs over concordant pairs is likely to influence the interpretation against the research hypothesis, rather than in favour of it.
Aside from obvious political targets such as Bush and Blair, I have noticed a preponderance of jokes over the past year or so - more especially on The Now Show - aimed at James Blunt, Chris Martin and figures such as Jade Goody, Wayne Rooney and Kerry Katona.
As it happens, the mesons, created in the proton-antiproton collisions, seem to go from their antimatter state to their matter state more rapidly than they go the other way around, leading to an eventual preponderance of matter over antimatter of about 1 percent, when they decay to muons.
The first was to unlock the trench barrier by inventing a machine that would be invulnerable to machine guns and capable of crossing trenches and would thus restore the tactical balance upset by the new preponderance of defensive over offensive power.
Weak Market A market with a general declining trend in prices and a preponderance of sellers over buyers.
A simplified constitutive description is presented which explains the preponderance of twinning over slip in tension beyond a critical strain rate.
P. pastoris LD are characterized by their high preponderance of triacylglycerols over steryl esters in the core of the organelle, the high degree of fatty acid (poly)unsaturation and the high amount of ergosterol precursors.
