The sentence has no problem that" prefer more than (few times)"
=(few times) relates to" prefer more than"
=(few times) treated as a phrase; as a unit in order to analysis
=prefer extra/further( times)
=more than; acting as adverb phrase
=to emphasize time relations on the phrase
=few times.:
Hence the sentence:-
"I prefer to hurt more (few times)".
2012-09-28 00:57:06 補充:
This is personification by ascribing life to non-living things or the sentence.THX