A girl I know was in a near-fatal accident last week.    From Wordnik.com.  [scorpi07 Diary Entry] Reference

Chuck is a changed man after his near-fatal incident.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gossip Girl Season 4 Preview: Get Ready For Blair and Serena, Independent Women] Reference

Indeed, he had recently survived a near-fatal illness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greg Mitchell: Beethoven's "Hymn of Thanksgiving": The Greatest Piece of Music Ever Written?] Reference

But how do you compare a bite to a near-fatal beating?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2009] Reference

Granted, Twine is a rickety pioneer, so it's plagued with many near-fatal problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clive Thompson on New Web Apps for Coping With Information Overload] Reference

When I was 15, my father was in a near-fatal car collision with a semi-trailer truck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Winship: The Gorilla Dust of Health Care] Reference

Maybe the Islais Creek Resort — where I had had a near-fatal encounter a while back.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dangerous Hour]

A near-fatal overdose which landed her in the ICU at St. John's Hospital outside St. Paul.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2009] Reference

The 28-year-old McGhee, who's come back from a near-fatal car accident, supplies inspiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Days Of Wonder] Reference

Turning a Pac-10 also-ran into a power eight years removed from a near-fatal brain hemorrhage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Questions for: Joanne Boyle] Reference

Back then, he was just recovering from a near-fatal infection of the tissues around his heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Bob] Reference

And the I-man is on his way to full recovery from a near-fatal accident with that thrown horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Don Imus Discusses Getting Back in the Saddle - July 12, 2000] Reference

The food was excellent, and the wine made him forget the near-fatal incident out in the street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impossible Places]

The family says that she suffered near-fatal kidney failure after she says she ate the Topps beef.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2007] Reference

Seventeen years ago, a near-fatal bus accident left pop star Gloria Estefan temporarily paralyzed.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2007] Reference

To be sure, the newspaper industry has made one near-fatal mistake: giving away its product for free.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catherine Specter: Charge of the Newspaper Brigade] Reference

He loved it all, even when two near-fatal spider bites persuaded him to give up the barefoot trekking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy?] Reference

But then Embraer turned a near-fatal problem into a competitive edge: it had no older jet to reconfigure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stumbling Toward Innovation] Reference

But just under two years later, Helene's husband Jean-Francois had a near-fatal accident on the autoroute.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patricia Zohn: Culture Zohn: Life in the Koolhaas] Reference

After a bout of near-fatal cancer in 1996 Armstrong recovered and won the Tour de France from 1999 to 2005.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Side of American Optimism] Reference

As NPR's Richard Gonzales reports, calls to ban metal bats grew louder last month after a near-fatal injury.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Controversy Over Aluminum Bats] Reference

I had had that near-fatal brush with one Free Trader crew who had operated on the shady fringe of the Guild.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncharted Stars]

Clinically speaking, I could probably be diagnosed with a near-fatal Stage III case of Apple Fanboy Syndrome.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Mesjak: Going Paperless: Five Apps and Services for the iPad That Can Help Publishers Work Smarter] Reference

And finally, in a near-fatal blow, silicon supplies became scarce and expensive, bringing the industry down low.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Schweitzer: The Consequences of Short-Term Thinking: Part II] Reference

After a series of near-fatal jaunts along the front lines, Rushdie returned to the comfort of his London studio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Marantz: We Tell Each Other Stories In Order To Live] Reference

A skydiver who defied death has survived a near-fatal fall on a previous jump straps on a parachute and jumps again.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2007] Reference

A near-fatal hunting accident in 1987 threatened Mr. LeMond's career, though he did return to win Tours in 1989 and 1990.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Badger Welcomes the Tour to His Home Turf] Reference

But if excessive optimism was the near-fatal pose in 2008, blind pessimism has emerged as the reflexive post-bust crouch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snap Out of It!] Reference

He survived a near-fatal stabbing outside a night club in 1973 and gave up drinking after a fall during his 53rd birthday party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Esteban 'Steve' Jordan, influential Tejano musician, dies at 71] Reference

And after Clay's near-fatal flubbing of "Vincent" last week, Ruben was waiting backstage to give him a 20-second Velvet Bear hug.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Idol' Worship] Reference

A near-fatal car accident in 1978 put his career on hold, but the echo of his huge success kept Mr. Frampton a living memory for rock fans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frampton Is Alive and Well] Reference