strong preference

collocation in English

meanings of strongand preference

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strong
adjective
uk /strɒŋ/ us /strɑːŋ/
powerful; having or using great force ...
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preference
noun[C or U]
uk /ˈpref.ər.əns/ us /ˈpref.ər.əns/
the fact that you like something or someone more than another thing ...
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Examples of strong preference

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Participants had a strongpreference for face-to-face interviews.
A second phenomenon is that children show a strongpreference for e over other vowel letters.
Food generalists are species which showed no strongpreference for dung or carrion.
Apparently there was a strongpreference for male heads in both neighbourhoods.
This strongpreference could explain the lack of behavior change experienced by this group.
These data also suggest a strongpreference by crabs for novel seedlings.
The second strongpreference is that an indefinite subject favours the construction.
Under its influence, a strongpreference for sons is likely to prevail.
The survey response indicates a strongpreference (58%) for in-class support by a music specialist.
The students demanded a music education that affirms their own musical values and their strongpreference for popular music.
So our suggested scenario may help to account for our respondents' strongpreference for trying to talk to the minister.
Although diverse in occupational background, the majority of commission members shared a strongpreference for state-level control.
There was generally a strongpreference for clinical rather than surrogate outcomes, such as results of imaging or laboratory tests.
In their results, girls showed a strongpreference for flute, piano and violin, while boys preferred drums, guitar and trumpet.
We included all patients receiving therapy in this study, whether randomized or expressing a strongpreference for a particular treatment.
He notes a strongpreference for standardization, via agencies of "quantitative impersonality," in contrast to ideals of accuracy and precision.
Ants e preferred the smallest seeds whereas both vertebrate groups exhibited a strongpreference for the largest seeds.
Also, her strongpreference for conventionally indirect strategies when requesting joint activity did not change over time.
Most nouns have developed a strongpreference for singular verb agreement, some remain variable, and some prefer the plural.
High values indicate a strongpreference for a party (or parties), while lower values indicate a weaker preference.
That system would be my strongpreference.
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They are now expressing a strongpreference.
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They have expressed a strongpreference.
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