1.   A similar fate befell other proposals over the following years.

2.   A worse fate has befallen the general interest, mass circulation magazines, once the dominant national media.

3.   I wondered what fate would befall me.

4.   Thankfully this fate has not befallen a splendid exponent of rabbinical humour, Rabbi Lionel Blue.

5.   One company went bankrupt, and a similar fate befell the other.

6.   That venue has now been flattened and a similar fate almost befell the kooky four-piece from Athens, Georgia, in the mid-Eighties.

7.   An even more tragic fate befell many who, amid the crazed stampede, were able to get out of the fort.

8.   A more common fate befell Orson Scott Card in a sci-fi detective- shooter game called Neo Hunter, from Virgin.

9.   A similar fate befell stockholders in Samsonite Corp., based in Denver.