cover ground vs hasten

cover ground

verb
  • To do a certain amount of work; to make progress towards an end. 

hasten

verb
  • To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker. 

  • To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier. 

  • To move or act in a quick fashion. 

How often have the words cover ground and hasten occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )