"terrible hardship" is an acceptable phrase to use in written English.
For example, "The Smiths faced terrible hardship as a result of the natural disaster."
It was a terrible hardship for my mother.
There is no doubt that Order No. 11 caused terrible hardship for Missouri civilians.
The monopoly worked terrible hardship on the cultivators and land-owners.
"I know that she has been through terrible hardship," Mrs. Kwan said.
Why make a whole civilian population suffer terrible hardship for more than 10 years?
Men eager for a share of the booty signed up for terrible hardship, or worse.
The Gouldings and their Navajo neighbors suffered terrible hardships, including a lack of food and cash during the Great Depression.
They also stress the imminence of the day of salvation, which is to be preceded by terrible hardships, and presumably reflected the current historical setting.
Others have tried empathy, conducting sympathetic interviews with the people suffering terrible hardships on this biblical pilgrimage north, to a place that doesn't want them.
Similarly, like many of their other fiction films, this one concerns a marginalized character — in this case, a young boy abandoned to the state by his father — who suffers terrible hardships that are surmounted only in communion with other people.
Hyperinflation has rendered the salaries of teachers, doctors and working people virtually worthless, and the widespread scarcity of basic goods, from food to medicines, has led to terrible hardships.
