Star Trek First Contact: One less plothole..My argument

wasnt the enterprise also at red alert the whole way back from romulous to the fleet in NEM? isnt that an even longer journey then the one in FC?

 

I remember the novel just mentions that the battle starts in the Typhoon sector and then moves onto Earth with the fleet following the cube. It doesn't mention a time span though.

 

How many sectors were there between the Typhon Sector and Sol Sector? Sectors were said to be about 20 light-years across, if a ship like the Enterprise were able to maintain maximum warp, it could possibly cross that distance in half a day or so.