The phrase "a class of professional" is not correct in standard English; it should be "a class of professionals." You can use it when referring to a group of individuals who share a common profession or occupation.
Example: "The conference brought together a class of professionals dedicated to advancing technology in education."
Alternatives: "a group of professionals" or "a category of professionals."
The system is inefficient, but it supports a class of professional writers, which might not otherwise exist.
An image arises of imperial Rome, maybe: immense comfort and hubris, being supported by a class of professional soldiers.
We must avoid the creation of a new class: a class of professional Asian-Australian coolies in the twenty-first century.
In a good year, this earns the publishers a modest profit, and it allows more authors to take risks in starting new projects — which is to say, it supports a class of professional writers.
Recurring bouts of puritanism and reforming movements in the church tended to remove secular literature from monastic control; ultimately there developed a class of professional families who were its custodians from the 12th to the 17th century.
3. Rise of a class of professional writers, as distinct from moral reformers, schoolteachers, clerics, or versatile journalists all those who, for pedagogical, doctrinal, or pecuniary reasons turn themselves into writers for children.
With Nixon's Administration was born a class of professionals whose sole job was to write the President's speeches, and who have been rewarded, in the main, for the amount of applause their prose could generate.
They were produced in workshops of large urban centers, like Paris, from the thirteenth until the early sixteenth century, giving origin to a class of professionals such as booksellers and illuminators [3].
At the New York Sports Club, Jain teaches a low-to-the-ground forward sashay, or what she artfully terms "the Bhangra slide," to a class of young professionals, few of them South Asians.
Women haven't actually been attending university for all that long, and the rise of a large class of professional women is quite a recent development.
They did not believe in a separate class of professional executives.
