He vastly preferred the latter sort, especially when they stayed that way.

He also states: "I would vastly prefer that this happen through nonviolent means.

Eddie vastly preferred it when Harry talked about books.

I, like you, would vastly prefer to have it as it was, that the murderer came from without, but that's no good now.

"Only when I thought of what I would vastly prefer to be doing."

He vastly preferred it to coming across the forerunners of a brigade about to sweep down on him.

Some people like little, skimpy, short draperies; I vastly prefer long ones.

Tormak vastly preferred the almost anonymous style of a simple assassination.

Diplomacy is vastly preferred, President Bush and his aides insist.

I've spent time in both northern and southern Mexico and I vastly prefer the north.