The phrase "and last in a" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to introduce a concluding point or item in a list, but it requires additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "We discussed several topics today, including the budget, project timelines, and last in a series of updates, the new marketing strategy."
Alternatives: "and finally in a" or "and ultimately in a".
I'm catching up on my travels for entrepreneurship events and thinking about last month as being the third and last in a series of roundtables convened and conducted by the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and facilitated by the committee chair, Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana.
The gathering was the third and last in a series of meetings aimed at identifying "game-changing" energy technologies.
What is the fewest points ever to separate first and last in a league?
The speech was the fourth and last in a series aimed at bolstering flagging support for the Iraqi conflict.
Colonel Evert's plane was the fourth and last in a formation, and no one knows if he dropped his ordnance.
The gallery is the latest and last in a series of 10 big-name-architect, regional fine-arts buildings to open in England during the past 10 years.
And last, in an age to come — "106 winters after the Fall" — the members of a forest tribe, surviving in primitive conditions, are visited by their streamlined superiors, who zip across the ocean in a kind of aqua-spacecraft.
And last, in an age to come—"106 winters after the Fall"—the members of a forest tribe, surviving in primitive conditions, are visited by their streamlined superiors, who zip across the ocean in a kind of aqua-spacecraft.
They are last in the N.F.L. in rushing yardage a game (56.8), last in turnover ratio (minus 13), last in third-down conversion rate (26.2 percent), last in net yards a punt attempt (34.8) and last in points yielded a game (36.4).
UConn ranks 119th in the Football Bowl Subdivision in total offense and last in rushing at a little less than 46 yards a game.
"This would be yet another example of President Trump's 'Putting America Last agendaa — last in innovation, last in science, and last in international leadership," Bennet said in a statement.
