noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
continental shelf
shelf life
the bottom drawer/shelf
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My passport’s in the bottom drawer of my desk.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bottom
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The small packets were on the bottom shelf , medium on the middle shelf and large packets on the top.
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She pointed to a pile of books on the bottom shelf of the bookcase.
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All the garages on the bottom shelf are full, but one of the garages on the top shelf is empty.
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I took the package from the bottom shelf of the cupboard and scurried back down the hall.
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The bottom shelf was wider and it held a square white machine which looked like a document shredder.
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They were all on the bottom shelves .
continental
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The government has announced the opening of the first tender for exploration on its continental shelf .
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This basin, called the Chicxulub crater, formed on the continental shelf in shallow water.
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Most species of marine organism live on the continental shelf .
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The southern component spreads over the continental shelf .
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The shallow drilling programme is central to the systematic survey of the continental shelf .
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Five more oilfields were producing oil from the North Sea continental shelf in 1976, including the massive Brent and Alpha fields.
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The submarine extension of a continent is called the continental shelf .
high
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Sam stood on a chair and probed the back of the highest shelf .
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He counted nine loaves of bread on the highest shelf and a dozen tins of meat stacked on the dresser.
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Being tall, Theresa was in charge of the high shelves .
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Not many people had the nerve to climb higher than shelf fifty.
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Now it languished on a high shelf , under a box full of cash register tapes.
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I crossed behind her, and seized a pair of steps, used to reach the higher shelves .
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Not that this affected his appetite for the bottles on Franco's highest shelf .
long
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Other features: the meals have a long shelf life and are light and compact to carry.
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There were long shelves of books and a rangy philodendron had grown over the top row.
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Obviously this will be of significance for producers where there is a long shelf life.
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Code doting is used by some food manufacturers on products that have a long shelf life.
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Some fromagefrais and quark have a longer shelf life and may be kept for a week or ten days after purchase.
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The aim is to produce beers that are sterile, have a long shelf life and are highly profitable.
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Where you have a fairly long shelf , it is wise to add a horizontal back support.
low
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Place on a baking tray lined with folded newspaper on the lowest shelf of oven.
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Consider open or pull-out shelves or add towel racks or low shelves.
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But it was taped under the lowest shelf where the videos were stored.
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The marble iris stood peacefully on a low shelf .
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A priest was kneeling on a low velvety shelf , the only furniture in the stark room.
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There is adequate equipment to play music on the lowest shelf of the bookcase in the small sitting-room.
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It rested half-open on a low shelf where the normal, the legal stuff was trimly stacked.
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The cell had no features other than a low shelf bearing a thin vinyl mattress.
open
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When she came with the tray he would slip downstairs and steal what he could from the open shelves in the pantry.
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Consider open or pull-out shelves or add towel racks or low shelves.
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Pamphlets are unsuitable for open shelf stock.
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Cupboards are replaced by open steel shelves , lined with glass storage jars.
top
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The top shelf is where Gay Times is traditionally to be found, nestling coyly next to Penthouse.
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The food and wine choices are top shelf and usually laid out on the linen-covered hood of a car.
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Teacher: Will it fit on the top shelf ?
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I, who can not reach anything on the top shelf at the supermarket?
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At home a few days later, she was pointing excitedly to a top shelf .
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All the garages on the bottom shelf are full, but one of the garages on the top shelf is empty.
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Although she could just about reach the top shelf with her fingertips, she was very unsteady.
■ NOUN
glass
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Adjustable shelving is still a very popular choice; timber and glass shelves are ideal for displaying ornaments.
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Lacquered cherry-red china closet with glass shelves , $ 149.
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Above the sink was a mirror composed of glass tiles stuck to the wall, and under it a simple glass shelf .
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The glint of the green bottle on the glass shelf above the basin.
ice
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Retreating ice shelves could be expected as a result of global warming, but are not in themselves evidence of it.
library
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There are books on many library shelves which become the subject of litigation, though not banned.
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The reality was that the school library shelves served the Black children poorly.
life
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Normally Flake bars have a shelf life of just nine months.
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Some movies have a Zen of shelf life -- they grow on you after repeated viewings.
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Generally recordings of this kind have a very short and limited shelf life .
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Unfortunately, AH-HAs have a very short shelf life .
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Other features: the meals have a long shelf life and are light and compact to carry.
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Code doting is used by some food manufacturers on products that have a long shelf life .
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The left has no interest in trying to extend its shelf life .
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Any grocer knows that fruits have widely different shelf lives , even with refrigeration.
registration
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Co. and is part of a $ 1 billion shelf registration .
space
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Not much compared with a redundant commercial package wasting shelf space .
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The spice war between Burns Philp and McCormick created a costly bidding war for shelf space that hurt both companies.
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Like-for-like growth, which excludes the effects of new shelf space , hit 3.1 percent in the second half.
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The idea was to capture the shelf space , lower prices, gain customers and then slowly ratchet prices back up.
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His collected works, he said, probably fill four foot ten of shelf space .
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By 1993, it consisted of 202 volumes and 131, 803 pages, taking up nineteen linear feet of shelf space .
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Many obsolescence measures have been derived to assist librarians in calculating shelf space allocation for journals.
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The closings reduced shelf space , which hurt record labels.
store
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Smaller or lesser-known manufacturers could find it harder to get space on store shelves .
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Seventy years of empty store shelves have created great pent-up demand for consumer goods, including electronics.
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More than 10 years would pass, however, before it appeared on grocery store shelves as Saran Wrap.
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This is one of the best things on your local comic book stores shelves .
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In fact, the gene-altered products often seem little different from ordinary varieties when lined up on store shelves .
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Beautiful glass jars sit in expensive rows on gourmet store shelves .
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Five months later, the goods were unpacked, ironed, and returned to the store shelves .
supermarket
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This reduces the wastage due to damage in the journey from greenhouse to supermarket shelf .
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Some imitation products are available on supermarket shelves .
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This latter is the most expensive champagne on any supermarket shelf .
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Some products on supermarket shelves are simply described as pasteurized process cheese product.
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Have a look out for it on supermarket shelves .
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Sour cream dressing and sour half-and-half dressing have been defined and are on supermarket shelves .
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When these products will reach the supermarket shelf is unclear.
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After all you can't sell the countryside on the supermarket shelf .
■ VERB
clear
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Dealers are also clearing their shelves .
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They have cleared their shelves of anything that could offend the public or bring down the wrath of the tabloids.
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The most basic is simply to clear space on the shelves to make room for new additions to stock.
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People in Maldon have been rushing out to nearby stores and clearing the shelves of meat and poultry.
fill
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I used to weigh spuds and fill the shelves and all that sort of thing.
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Scores of new titles, with slick covers and graphics, fill the shelves .
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Just the way the nouveauriche of today buy leather-covered volumes by the metre, in order to fill the shelves of their libraries.
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The books fill tall shelves along three walls and cover the desk, a table and much of the floor.
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There's just a small matter of something to fill the shelves .
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Advice books for parents on how to deal with child-development problems at every age level fill many shelves in bookstores and libraries.
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Whichever, the walls were filled with shelves , and the shelves with books.
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He glanced at the documents and scrap-books filling these old shelves .
hit
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So he went at me, but I ducked and he hit the shelf - he broke his thumb in two places!
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Magic shop in Plantation, the rat stock sells out nearly before it hits the shelves .
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They - and you - should look out for our new magazine - Fishkeeping Answers which hit the shelves on March 14.
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An interesting book hits the shelves next month involving former baseball great Tug McGraw.
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Yet another all-in-one shampoo has hit the shelves , this time from St. Ives.
leave
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The saga centres on the tangled love life of a 30-year-old woman, who fears she will be left on the shelf .
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What was left on the shelves would not keep them alive.
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Below the old Church at Battersea the retreating flood had left exposed a wide shelf of mud and gravel.
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Lots of girls married in haste and repented at leisure then because they were afraid of being left on the shelf .
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I couldn't afford to risk being left on the shelf once Karen had had her way with me.
line
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Bags of manure line the shelves .
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In fact, the gene-altered products often seem little different from ordinary varieties when lined up on store shelves .
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She bought books and lined the shelves of her bookcase.
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Sticky bottles of cough medicine lined his bathroom shelf .
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Rows of sweetie jars lined the shelves .
pull
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The woman looked at them for a moment over the book she had pulled from the shelf .
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One of the giving-out-food humans was pulling trays off a shelf when a movement made it look up.
put
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He put it on a shelf at the back of the hangar with the rest of the heads.
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The bulb had blown and he stood in the dimness putting objects on shelves .
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We helped with putting up the shelves and we filled all the bottles in each shop.
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I empty the soil in it and put it on the shelf .
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If your cupboards are full to bursting, put up a handy shelf .
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Some cans of milk were put on the shelves and their crates made into chairs.
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Do not put shelves or bathroom cabinets immediately above the washbasin.
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The doors could close, backs could be turned, curricular recommendations accepted, nodded at, and put on the shelf .
reach
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When he reached the shelf he discovered most of the books had disappeared.
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Stuart tried hard to reach but the shelf was just too high.
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When these products will reach the supermarket shelf is unclear.
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If he stood on tiptoe, he could reach the shelf .
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Although she could just about reach the top shelf with her fingertips, she was very unsteady.
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His mind a careful blank, he reached to the shelf over it and took down a small plastic bag.
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Adam reached to a shelf behind Miranda's desk and picked up a case of cosmetic samples.
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I crossed behind her, and seized a pair of steps, used to reach the higher shelves .
sit
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Just to know that some fabulous ending sits on a shelf somewhere.
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Mcduff came with him to sit in the shelves and they took it in turns to keep watch.
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The promising plan now sits on a shelf in some county office.
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I sat on the shelf beside the steering-wheel, the shelf that was supposed to be for passengers' parcels and luggage.
stack
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The companies who thought they were buying themselves employees to stack their shelves or deliver mail are getting nothing of the sort.
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Some wear casual shirts and jeans, their Reeboks and Nikes stacked in shoe shelves by the door.
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The business grew Topsy-like as Dixons stacked its shelves with electrical and photographic equipment from low-cost suppliers in the Far East.
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They were stacked on the shelf .
stand
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The books and pictures stood out on the shelves .
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Against the right wall, at chest height, stood a ten-foot-long sloping shelf upon which the newspaper layouts could be spread.
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I spent the morning sitting on the floor and the afternoon standing up at the shelf .
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She was standing at the meat shelf , scanning the plastic packets.
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They stood on a shelf in the spare room at Annick Water.
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A few minutes later, she was standing in front of a shelf stacked with yearly editions of the book.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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shelves of books
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Put it back on the top shelf .
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supermarket shelves
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An interesting book hits the shelves next month involving former baseball great Tug McGraw.
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Her daughters would giggle over the odd doodles they found in kitchen drawers or on the back shelf of the downstairs toilet.
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I empty the soil in it and put it on the shelf .
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Like any other book, its popularity will last for a moment, but it will remain on the shelves.
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Normally Flake bars have a shelf life of just nine months.
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Now the telephone had acquired a personality, sat on the shelf so smug, taunting her with its silence.
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The next shelf we stopped on was filled with farm animals.