The phrase "at last got" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a sense of relief or satisfaction after a long wait or effort to achieve something.
Example: "After months of searching, I at last got the job I wanted."
Alternatives: "finally received" or "eventually obtained".
He tells her that he has "at last got rid of a burden".
Yet their cause prevailed: in 1920, women at last got the vote.
On February 18th, investors at last got an answer, as well as some replies to other pertinent inquiries about the putative benefits of the banks' merger.
It was not until 2004 that VW at last got around to making its own version of the camper van.
After several tantalizing glimpses of Stromboli from cruise ships, I at last got there in 1998.
Last year the government at last got around to ending the pension privileges of civil servants, but only for new entrants.
In the early hours of June 29th, Mr Verhofstadt at last got his deal, leaving him free to turn his attention to "Europe" and the start of the Belgian presidency.
Whether the present government is refusing to let a parliamentary committee see the Foreign Office's telegrams on Sierra Leone (the committee at last got its way this week), or declining to put ministers in front of obstreperous BBC interviewers, it has given the impression of ruthlessly hoarding and managing information.
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For the first time, the leader of what was until 1991 the Italian Communist Party, but is now called the Democrats of the Left (DS), will form a government and become its prime minister.After nearly two weeks without one, Italy at last got its new government on October 21st, when Mr D'Alema managed to scrape together enough support to be sworn in by President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro.
The North Korean leader's previous attention-grabber was the detonation of a nuclear "device", possibly a small bomb, in October 2006.Ironically, it was that blast which at last got China to lean hard on Mr Kim.
