Sentence examples for amount of licence from inspiring English sources

The BBC's Director-General Tony Hall said: "DMI has wasted a huge amount of licence feepayers' money and I saw no reason to allow that to continue.

Tony Hall, the BBC Director-General, abandoned the project in May, saying it had "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money".

DMI was eventually axed earlier in May by BBC director general Tony Hall after he said it had "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money" – £98.4m.

Taking into account factors such as the cost of collection, the difference between the total amount of licence fee collected and the BBC spend in Scotland is around £100m.

In yesterday's FT BBC insiders asserted that their ITV local news partnership proposal was worth more than £20m a year, not £7m - in effect reducing the amount of licence fee money that would be required to subsidise a replacement service further.

After the analogue TV signal is switched off in 2012, the government proposes that the same amount of licence fee money set aside annually for the digital surplus be spent instead on non-BBC public service content, including the replacement ITV news service.

In his first public speech since becoming chairman, Patten tried to draw a line under a long-running "toxic" row which has seen the corporation frequently criticised for the amount of licence-fee payers' money it spends on its top executives.

The film uses a fair amount of artistic licence.

Billy Budd is not an opera that allows a director a huge amount of dramatic licence.

"There is a certain amount of poetic licence in the film," he says with a smile.

There's nothing like the word 'swaddling' to give a cook a comforting amount of artistic licence.