1.   After the Olympics, people will disappear for five or six months in some sports.

2.   After that came six months of chemotherapy.

3.   But that strategy is costly and time-consuming, since it takes roughly six months of wining and dining, meetings and discussions to secure an order.

4.   Only in Macedonia, another former republic of Yugoslavia, did the council extend its peacekeeping mandate for a full six months, the duration previously applied.

5.   Swartz telephoned Nooyi, a PepsiCo Inc. senior vice president, repeatedly over six months last year.

6.   The judge in South Carolina made her spend a full six months in juvenile detention.

7.   They live here six months a year.

8.   They said it would take at least six months for them to readdress the issue.

9.   Timing is important, since the surgery requires between four and six months of recovery.