Ask any male who ever played Civil War games as a boy if there was a marked preference for one side or the other.

They show a marked preference for moving under medium to dense vegetation cover.

Among this population there is a marked preference for the strange and foreign over the familiar or conventional.

They also have a marked preference for cross cousin marriages.

He won seven races and more than £230,000 in prize money during a career which was restricted by his marked preference for soft ground.

Many Connecticut towns show a marked preference for moderate candidates of either party.

Lately she had shown a marked preference for Holmes' absence rather than his company.

One recent study showed "a marked preference for pink among girls and women in different cultures".

The entire market cannot be eliminated, he believes, because of Washington's marked preference for deregulation.

So far the Bush administration has shown a marked preference for the first type.