Look - there's a nice soft patch of grass for you.

Oh there's a lovely soft patch that she can fall on, god.

So the evidence that the economy was in a soft patch has pretty much disappeared.

What happens next depends to a great extent on whether the global economy can make it through the current soft patch.

Right over in that soft patch to the left of the house.

And he turned away to find himself a nice soft patch of grass.

"We're likely going to see manufacturing production hit a soft patch for a couple of months."

"At this point, it appears that the economy is still mired in the soft patch we hit last fall," he said.

As of now, he is forecasting that the soft patch will be over by summer.

And whoever had passed through here would have been careful to avoid any of the softer patches.