Chair of the committee Helen Mary Jones AM raised concerns over the soft ring fencing of money which she compared to a soft boiled egg which "hangs together until you break the shell".

BBC: Children and Young People Committee

In the chef's second Slow Food Fast contribution, seared spring onions, boiled new potatoes, a soft-boiled egg and plump, sweet peas top a pool of creamy, herbal green goddess dressing.

WSJ: Spring Vegetables With Green Goddess Dressing

Top it off with a soft-boiled egg and a few cilantro sprigs, and you've got a meal that takes a mere 25 minutes and makes the slog of winter fade into distant memory.

WSJ: Ignacio Mattos's Saut��ed Mackerel With Peas, Garlic and Egg

Its belly was white as an egg, soft, dry and shiny like polished leather and undulating with breaths.

BBC: Tagging crocodiles in Belize

There was a bison tartare, which came buried under a soft-boiled quail egg, and was meant to be mixed all together with the gouda cheese and rosemary mustard vinaigrette that were included.

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