I fixed the damage, but only a few hours will tell if you'll have more problems.

The next few hours would tell if that route had led inevitably to murder.

I have a sneaking suspicion that two hours of film will tell this story better.

And spending a few hours with an animal won't tell you if it will pose future problems, he says.

Some hours later, she called and told me blithely, a woman of the world, "Well, they cut it all off."

He called an hour later to tell me a joke he had heard.

"Two hours to freedom, guys," he told the prisoners in the camp below.

The next few hours would tell him whether or not they were of any value.

It would take hours to tell the truth at this point.