Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, we ask you to write an answer to a question that involves “event duration", based on a given sentence. Here, event duration is defined as the understanding of how long events typically last. For example, “brushing teeth”, usually takes a few minutes. Note that a lot of the questions could have more than one correct answer. We only need a single most-likely answer. Please try to keep your "answer" as simple as possible. Concise and simple "answer" is preferred over those complex and verbose ones.

Sentence: In the fall of 1991, he asked a German family he had met in Cairo to help him continue his education in Germany. 
Question: How long will he want help?

for a few months.