1.   Comparative figures for last year clearly show how sales have declined.

2.   Parts and accessories sales Declined sharply, reversing an earlier trend.

3.   Analysts expected sales to decline.

4.   As a result, overall sales have declined sharply, and he recently asked the workers in the Aspermex union to go on a three-day week.

5.   As sales declined, profits went with them.

6.   As recently as March, retail sales were declining.

7.   Asia-Pacific sales declined sequentially.

8.   At the same time, if his sales decline, he will probably lose the earring before you have a chance to say anything.

9.   Bonds of struggling Kmart Corp. and J.C. Penney Co., a stronger retailer whose sales declined in December, are among those eyed as possible bargains.

10.   Breck sales declined so drastically, he said, because for decades it was not enthusiastically marketed.