"Harriette's threatened to die for ten years but she always bounces back, " my mother cried.

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Ten people die every day from unintentional drowning in the United States, making it the fifth-leading cause of unintentional injury death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Ten thousand patients die each year from hospital acquired infections.

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Johann Sebastian Bach lost both of his parents when he was nine and watched ten of his children die young.

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"If you take an average of the 10 most common cancers, men are more likely to die in seven out of the ten, " he added.

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Tens of thousands of people are expected to die from the virus in the next ten years.

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To avoid being subject to the U.S. estate tax an expat has to live for more than ten years after expatriation or die in 2010--the year in which the U.S. estate tax disappears for one year.

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We selected the "Ten Games To See Before You Die" with that thought in mind.

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Obesity and tobacco use each kill more 400, 000 Americans a year, ten times as many people as die in car accidents, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control.

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It is time of remarkable brain development, but also an extremely vulnerable time for young children, especially in the developing world, where a child has a four in ten chance of living in extreme poverty and 10.5 million children under age of 5 die from preventable diseases every year.

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