1.   Tainted meat and poultry cause thousands of illnesses and hundreds of deaths each year.

2.   Although there are no reliable official statistics, fires alone account for thousands of deaths every year.

3.   Backers of the measure had hailed it as a breakthrough that would prevent hundreds of accidental fires and dozens of deaths each year.

4.   Before her death this year, Dennie Doucher set out to change that.

5.   A few dozen murderers are put to death each year in the United States.

6.   But even if true, he added, any trend in attacks paled in comparison with the tens of thousands of deaths every year from car accidents and handguns.

7.   Family typically celebrate on the anniversary of the death each year as well.

8.   Handguns account for the vast majority of gun deaths each year.

9.   Heatstrokes and other heat-related injuries account for thousands of deaths each year.

10.   If the weather remains frigid this winter, more homeless New Yorkers could freeze to death this year than last.