Sentence examples for shelf about from inspiring English sources

Last week, the First Marine Expeditionary Force formally took control of the city, population 300,000, which sits on a desert shelf about 35 miles west of Baghdad.

At some point in the afternoon, the cadets found themselves stuck on a narrow shelf about 500 feet off the ground.

The tanker was monitoring an oil rig operated by engineering company Modec on the north-west shelf, about 78 nautical miles, or 145km, from the coast.

Charitha Pattiaratchi, a professor of oceanography at the University of Western Australia told Reuters that the search area covered an ocean ridge known as Naturalist Plateau, a large sea shelf about 3,500m (9,800ft) deep.

"THE WAY WE LAUGHED" A film by Gianni Amelio ("Lamerica"), which mellowed after a couple of years of sitting on the shelf, about Sicilian brothers who emigrate upcountry to Turin in search of employment.

But while Burma Shave went the way of the museum shelf, about 100 of Mr. Light's old signs, most of them on the original metal sheets — with the occasional bullet hole and rust to prove it — are still there, some as far as 70 miles from town.

The model I was planning to build required standard bookshelves, about 83 inches high, but I wanted floor-to-ceiling shelves, about 120 inches high.

WHEN milk in boxes first showed up on supermarket shelves about 20 years ago, American shoppers were suspicious.

We realized that there were many books on the shelves about making money but very few about giving it away.

Its products returned to store shelves about four months later after it overhauled production and stepped up testing to prevent another outbreak.

"Let Me Off at the Top!: My Classy Life and Other Musings," a fully authorized tell-all autobiography, will hit shelves about a month before "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" comes to movie screens.