"in a shelf" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to indicate the location of something being placed or stored on a shelf. For example: - The books are organized in a shelf according to genre. - I found an old photo album in a shelf in the attic. - Can you put the cereal back in a shelf after you're done with it?.
See if the school will allow you to bring in a shelf.
"It's not a basket you put in a shelf in your garage," said David Porat, the owner.
He opened it and saw lodged in a shelf on the door -- an old box of brown sugar.
Downtown, just south of the Hollywood Freeway, Esmerido Zamora lives on the river in a shelf cut into its banks.
In a shelf on the refrigerator door was a packet of butter, imported from Normandy and made by Isigny Sainte-Mère.
"If you're in Iran and your book is rejected or censored to the bone then you had to either bin it or put it in a shelf to gather dust.
Other signs of fatherly attention include, in a shelf-lined nook on the third floor, a collection of his children's grade-school efforts in ceramics.
Installed wonder-cabinet style in a shelf-lined gallery, the items range from art to artifact to trinkets; leap across cultures; and trickle from high to low, where racial stereotypes and kitsch frequently take over.
Installed wonder-cabinet style in a shelf-lined gallery, the items range from art to artifact to tchotchkes; leap across cultures; and trickle from high to low, where racial stereotypes and kitsch frequently take over.
Hubbard, D. K., Miller, A. I. & Scaturo, D. Production and cycling of calcium carbonate in a shelf-edge reef system (St. Croix, US Virgin Islands); Applications to the nature of reef systems in the fossil record.
"Those guys know that if they process milk in a shelf-stable bottle, they are going to make a fortune," said Darryl Wernimont, a director of the Haskell Company, an industrial design and construction firm based in Jacksonville, Fla., that is a consultant on aseptic packaging plants.
