We should try to cover five or ten miles tonight.
The first man to cover 100 miles in one hour.
Thus they covered three miles in perhaps as many hours.
In two months on the road, they covered more than 1500 miles.
In an hour they had covered less than two miles.
He had covered no more than four miles last night.
"No living man could cover three miles of that ground in half an hour."
I have put in two hours' hard work and covered at least five miles, with something to show for it.
He spent a total of 123 days at sea and covered 4278 miles.
But on foot he could cover no more than 20 miles a day.