Last year 33,000 endured a delay of more than half a day, an 86 per cent increase from 2013.

Rail users are already enduring delays and overcrowding that few other advanced economies would tolerate.

The 17,000 crowd had endured a delayed start and lengthy break between innings as showers turned heavy.

Some customers endure delays and problems yet see only a small cut in their bills.

On the roads, motorists endured delays and diversions as the heavy snow caused road closures and a series of accidents.

The team also had to endure heat and stuffy conditions, especially during the scene in which the family shared steamboat in the living room.

She endured heat exhaustion and bad weather and shed 22lb during the epic voyage, which was aimed at raising awareness about climate change and plastic debris polluting the ocean.

This plant thrives on well-drained soils and endures heat and windy conditions well.

The latter means that you do not have to endure hours of irrelevant and often dubious theory.

Thanks to the ongoing writers' strike, we didn't have to endure hours of rubbish speeches and false tears from the winners, and those unconvincing brave smiles from the losers.

They will also endure hours of grueling workouts with world-class trainers.

For the well-born to endure poverty seems no fairer.

He had to endure poverty and sickness, to the point that he was expelled for not being able to pay his pension.

She has been staying there with her entourage at a cost of 2,000 a day while her country endures poverty, hunger and disease.

They have endured poverty and disempowerment through the centuries, but never before have they been so crushed.

There, she endured poverty, verging on starvation for a year.

Surgeons were convinced she was strong enough to endure surgery and a painful recovery period.

Rather than endure surgery she attempted to address the problem with strengthening work and altering her running action.

She endured surgery and currently has no further signs of cancer.