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The inhabitants, apparently Neanderthals, selectively used pine for heating in preference to more available types of wood.

This is probably because a fetus starved of oxygen will send oxygenated blood to the brain in preference to rest of the body.

But plant species do move, as seeds that are spread tend to grow better in one place than another — in this case at higher elevations in preference to lower ones.

She was chosen in preference to her sister.

She choose to learn the violin in preference to the piano

A person who advocates peace, conciliation, or negotiation in preference to confrontation or armed conflict.

You can also employ tables to add color to a page in preference to slow loading graphics.

Where those two languages can be error prone, Ceylon forces a block structure on the cases and removes the default case in preference to an else block.

My heart invariably cleaved to the master's, in preference to Catherine's side.

I would generally/usually choose Chinese food in preference to western food.

It may be watched and guarded, so that the enemy shall not force his way again into the citadel, and might even in his subsequent assaults, select some other avenue, in preference to that where he had formerly succeeded.

But the circumstance was sufficient to lead him to select Tess in preference to the other pretty milkmaids when he wished to contemplate contiguous womankind.

Promoting the use of aluminum containers in preference to others might actually conserve resources.