The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt

The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

If it has a shelf life longer than you, don't eat it.

I didn't like when people said that actresses have shelf life.