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Free sign upThe phrase "started to prefer" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about something that you initially wanted or needed but have since begun to prefer something else. For example, "She started to prefer studying in the library instead of her bedroom."
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She started to prefer leggings.
Before, I used to long for Tripoli; now, only recently, I have started to prefer Brighton.
After the year was up I transferred my allegiances to Moscow, a place I now know better than St Petersburg and had even guiltily started to prefer (which, to anyone from the city the Russians affectionately call 'Peter', is the equivalent of a Cockney rhapsodising about Cardiff).
Bach used the French string orchestra with two viola parts, as in most cantatas until 1715, when he started to prefer the Italian scoring with one viola.
In fact, it's so easy to buy incredibly good weed that some people have started to prefer schwag, and delivery services have proliferated.
As time went on, I started to prefer escaping into the private world of writing to trying and failing to impress my frenemies, and that attitude resulted in them banishing me and another girl from the group.
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Or, if interest rates go up, those investors may start to prefer Treasury bonds.
She knows that Orel is starting to prefer boys as playmates and she makes room.
"I'm starting to prefer the ones who don't believe in me".
"People will start to prefer this type of product and then it will gradually transform meat production".
We are swiftly becoming accustomed to — and perhaps even starting to prefer — online conversations and interactions that revolve around images and photos.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
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