Which preposition to use with preponderances

of Occurrences 133%

Commonly, however, there is a great preponderance of limbs toward the east, away from the direction of the prevailing winds.

in Occurrences 19%

They outnumbered us, had a large preponderance in guns, were near their base, and enjoyed the advantage of prepared positions and a comparatively easy access to supplies and ammunition.

over Occurrences 8%

The British mercantile marine continued through the greater part of the nineteenth century to increase its preponderance over all others, and this remarkable, and probably quite exceptional, growth was greatly favoured by the Civil War in America, during which the mercantile marine of the United States received from the action of the Confederate cruisers a damage from which it has never recovered.

from Occurrences 2%

Honest optimates would wish to maintain the Senate's preponderance from affection to it, and from belief in its being the mainstay of the State.

amongst Occurrences 1%

That Russia, if invited, would snatch at the opportunity to gain preponderance amongst the powers on earthof this I entertained not the slightest doubt; but I must confess, I did not believe either that Austria would claim, or that the other powers of the earth, and chiefly Great Britain and America, would permit the intervention of Russia.

to Occurrences 1%

And should even the house of Austria, ruled by a guilty woman, under the name of a witless, cruel child, be willing thus to ruin itself; how could I imagine that England, that America, that the World, would allow such a preponderance to Russia as makes her almost the mistress over the world; at least opens the way to become such?

toward Occurrences 1%

True to type I cried by the hour over fancied slights from my schoolmates, and brooded days at a time because Father or Mother "didn't understand," I questioned everything in the earth beneath and the heavens above; and in my dark despair over an averted glance from my most intimate friend, I meditated on whether life was, or was not, worth the living, with a preponderance toward the latter.

Which preposition to use with  preponderances