"sales diminished" is a perfectly acceptable and grammatically correct phrase in written English that can be used in many different contexts.
For example, "After the new tax was introduced, the company's sales diminished significantly."
The group, which was the Crests, lasted until '60 or '61, and then sales diminished.
With album sales diminished over all, that would be perfectly respectable for a hit.
In September, as American sales diminished, Mr. Messinger fretted that he would have to cut his work force.
The model's sales diminished as General Motors found greater success with the Buick Riviera and Pontiac Grand Prix.
As her record sales diminished Ms. Snow became a highly sought-after voice on commercial jingles for companies like Michelob, Hallmark and AT&T.
It then shrank after a deep recession cut into United States demand for foreign goods by a greater amount than American export sales diminished.
Bev Nipps, a 20-year veteran manager of Reading record stores, thinks the majors' agenda is more predictable: "Unfortunately, as record companies saw CD sales diminishing, their logical tactic was to squeeze the people who were buying vinyl who are so loyal – and push to see how far they could go.
Earlier this year, the company acknowledged that growth in online book sales had diminished.
Government subsidies tempered the decline in Spain, one of the Eurozone's hardest-hit economies, but sales still diminished there, by 17.3 percent for Volkswagen and 46 percent for Renault.
Yeezus debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 327,000 copies in its first week of release, but sales soon diminished.
Pointing to a looming housing problem in rural areas as well as cities, Mr. Martinez said the number of poor people desperate for housing had grown while the number of affordable houses for sale had diminished.
