Preposition: within

• year: MND usually takes hold in middle age between forty-five to fifty-five years and generally proves fatal within a few short years.

Modifies a noun

• flaw: Fatal flaws Philip Cowley responds to last issue's Pilgrim column Think back a touch under nine years, to May 7 1997.

• accident: February 22 nd 1859 A fatal accident occurred in Sudbury on Tuesday last.

• collision: Police are renewing their appeal for information about a fatal road traffic collision which occurred last Saturday Night.

• crash: The three stories revolve around a fatal car crash.

• shooting: A similar justification was used for the fatal shooting of a Brazilian.

• overdose: Taking too much of a sedative drug can lead to a fatal overdose.

Modifying Another Word

• potentially: The child who is affected from the potentially fatal disease has not yet been traced.

• invariably: Ferrets should be inoculated against this infection, which is invariably fatal for them.

• ultimately: But what is ultimately fatal to Mr Moat's argument on this point is what happened at the trial itself.

• possibly: The Court of Appeal has delivered a further, possibly fatal, blow to such appeals in the decision in Pegasus Birds Limited.

• sometimes: Hay fever is another reaction of the immune system to proteins, sometimes fatal like asthma.

• rarely: This form of the disease, which is easily treated with antibiotics, is rarely fatal.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: Minutes or even seconds being lost could prove fatal.

• seem: There are few things that seem fatal to anemones, other than metal-based chemical therapeutics or accidental introduction of metal ions from other sources.

Preposition: in

• case: As a result of this, many recipients of blood and plasma products developed HIV and hepatitis, which was fatal in many cases.

• %: If untreated, the disease can be fatal in 5 % of cases, but with prompt antibiotic treatment recovery occurs.

• patient: Chickenpox is of particular concern since this normally minor illness may be fatal in immunosuppressed patients.

• human: The radiation levels there are about 10000 times that that would be fatal in humans!

Preposition: for

• someone: He was certain if he misjudged a maneuver of this type the result could potentially be fatal for someone.